Katherine Ann Porters The Jilting of Granny Weatherall :: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Katherine Ann Porters The Jilting of granny knot WeatherallThe Jilting of naan Weatherall, a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, describes the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly womanhood. As naan Weatheralls life literally flashes before her eyes, the importance of the title of the story becomes obvious. Granny Weatherall has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every(prenominal) love relationship of her life. Her past lover George, husband John, daughter Cornelia, and God each did an injustice to Granny Weatherall. Granny faces her last moments of life with a premix of strength, bitterness, and fear. Granny gained her strength from the people that she felt jilted by. George stood Granny up at the altar and it is never stated that she heard from him again. The pain forced Granny to be strong.In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, there are two themes. The first is self-pity. The second theme is the acceptance of her death. Both deal with the way peop le savvy their deaths and mortality in general. Granny Weatheralls behavior is Porters tool for making these themes visible to the reader. The theme of self-pity is obvious and thoroughly explored early on. As a young lady, Granny Weatherall was odd at the altar on her wedding day. As a result, the pathetic woman feels sorry for herself for the rest of her life. She becomes a bitter old woman who is suspicious of everyone around her. This point is shown early in the story when the do Granny Weatherall, the main character in Katherine Anne Porters The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, is an 80-year-old elderly woman who is at the doorstep of death. There is a sense of disillusionment with Granny that leads readers to develop their own interpretation of her relationship with Cornelia, her daughter As the narrator, Granny unknowingly would blushing mushroom the picture of Cornelia as nuisance and bothersome. In fact, the reader can rationalize that it is just Cornelias concern for an ai ling mother that creates the situation of her seemingly being there all the time. Granny is having mental flashbacks as death approaches like a fog rose over the valley (1296). Granny recalls events throughout her life, from being left at the altar on her wedding day, to losing a child, to coming to grips with her own death as the story reaches a close. All of these recollections and the realization of her death take in together the great ironies of the story, ironies which cause not one but two jiltings for Granny.