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

Katherine Ann Porters The Jilting of grannie WeatherallThe Jilting of gran Weatherall, a short legend by Katherine Anne Porter, describes the last(a) thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly fair sex. As grandma Weatheralls life literally flashes before her eyes, the importance of the designation of the story becomes self-explanatory. grandma Weatherall has been in some way deceived or bilk in every love relationship of her life. Her past lover George, economize John, daughter Cornelia, and God each did an injustice to Granny Weatherall. Granny faces her last moments of life with a mixture of strength, bitterness, and fear. Granny gained her strength from the people that she matte jilted by. George stood Granny up at the altar and it is never tell 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 borrowing of her death. Both deal with the way people perceive their deaths and mortality in general. Granny Weatheralls behavior is Porters tool for making these themes visible to the contributor. The theme of self-pity is obvious and thoroughly explored early on. As a young lady, Granny Weatherall was leftfield at the altar on her wedding day. As a result, the nonsensical charwoman 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 paint the picture of Cornelia as nuisance and bothersome. In fact, the reader can rationalize that it is just Cornelias co ncern for an ailing mother that creates the place 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 bring together the wide ironies of the story, ironies which cause not one but two jiltings for Granny.