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

Katherine Ann Porters The Jilting of naan WeatherallThe Jilting of nanna Weatherall, a short tier by Katherine Anne Porter, describes the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly cleaning woman. As nanna Weatheralls emotional state literally flashes before her eyes, the importance of the title of the story becomes obvious. nan Weatherall has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every love relationship of her life. Her past lover George, husband John, young lady 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 felt jilted by. George stood Granny up at the altar and it is never stated that she perceive from him again. The pain forced Granny to be strong.In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, in that respect are two themes. The first is self-pity. The second theme is the acceptance of her terminal. two dea l with the way people perceive 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 well explored early on. As a young lady, Granny Weatherall was left at the altar on her espousal 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 odd 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 better 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 stub rationalize that it is just Cornelias concern for an a iling mother that creates the situation of her patently 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 great ironies of the story, ironies which guinea pig not one but two jiltings for Granny.