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dancingurl, Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall contains two...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:28:02 PST

dancingurl, Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall contains two narratives: one of a woman’s dying hour and another of the past that floods her mind. The old lady, a tough Southerner or Southwesterner with an intense love of life, has “weathered all,” even a jilting; she had expected a groom,George, and was publicly disappointed when he failed to show up. Now, at her death, again a priest is in the house, and again she is...

keebla21, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Porter is a...

Fri, 29 May 2009 01:53:54 PST

keebla21, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Porter is a classic study in "stream of consciousness." The literary term refers to events chronicled not in a chronologicsl or linear manner, but the way the character perceives things through their inner thoughts. This is often applied to works where characters are either dying, mentally ill, or under great sense where their "thoughts jump from one idea to the next without pattern or...

How is "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" a stream of consciousness story?

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:59:46 PST

How is "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" a stream of consciousness story?

On the last day of her life, how do you think Granny Weatherall feels...

Fri, 8 May 2009 09:05:58 PST

On the last day of her life, how do you think Granny Weatherall feels toward the man who stood her up on her wedding day sixty years ago?

What is the primary conflict and how is it resolved?

Sun, 3 May 2009 10:37:17 PST

What is the primary conflict and how is it resolved?

Granny has memories of when she cared for her children and took care of...

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:03:46 PST

Granny has memories of when she cared for her children and took care of her farm. She also helped her neighbors by caring for their sick children and their animals. She also was able to make it through the frustration of being jilted by George. The jilting is the key in this story. She was able to endure that, but she did carry it with her through the years. This shows her emotional strength the best. "For sixty years she had prayed...

What memories and details suggest Granny's physical and emotional strength?

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:59:59 PST

What memories and details suggest Granny's physical and emotional strength?

If you read everything in terms of being entertained, you might consider...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:39:11 PST

If you read everything in terms of being entertained, you might consider this idea. There are other reasons to read other than personal enjoyment, although it is always great to enjoy personally what we are reading and to identify with it. That said, however, think of this. Sometimes we read to study and learn, rather than to simply sit back and be entertained. From a literary perspective, you can read this story as an example of stream of...

We can infer several things about Granny Weatherall from the first...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:22:59 PST

We can infer several things about Granny Weatherall from the first paragraph. She is ill, she is old, she is a strong, no-nonsense personality, and she is delusional. We know Granny is ill because she is being attended to by her doctor. We know she is old because she knew him when he was a boy. We know she is delusional because she thinks he is still a boy, telling him to "take your schoolbooks and go." Finally, we know Granny still is spunky,...

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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:14:09 PST

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What painful memory is squeezed out of Granny's heart in "The Jilting of...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:10:29 PST

What painful memory is squeezed out of Granny's heart in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"?

Although Granny feels jilted by George, the fiance who left her at the...

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:58:14 PST

Although Granny feels jilted by George, the fiance who left her at the alter some sixty years ealier, many believe the jilting that bothered her most was the jilting by God. Near the age of 20, she was left alone at an alter with a priest. The man she loved never showed up. After reliving that moment over in her mind many times, Granny is once again faced with lying in a bed alone with only a priest there with her. She waits for a sign...

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," how is Granny Weatherall jilted...

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:35:19 PST

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," how is Granny Weatherall jilted for a second time?

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Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:05:14 PST

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The most obvious would be the characters of Miss Emily and Granny...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:54:29 PST

The most obvious would be the characters of Miss Emily and Granny Weatherall. Both are very stubborn old women who are set in their ways and ho have jaded views of reality. Both harbor resentments about their pasts, too. Both women have also been betrayed and jilted. Emily, for example, has been betrayed by her father because of the way he raised her. He did not let her have a normal childhood and adolescence because he kept her so...

What would be some very good compare/contrast points when comparing the...

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:09:19 PST

What would be some very good compare/contrast points when comparing the stories "A Rose for Emily" and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"?

Granny is dying and the story is told through her semi-conscious mind....

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:29:37 PST

Granny is dying and the story is told through her semi-conscious mind. The fact that her bones are "loose" and the doctor is "floating like a balloon" are indicative of the way her mind is working. Nothing seems quite real because of her closeness to death. This also is characteristic of the disjointed way Granny is telling the story. She floats through a seemingly unconnected set of memories that the reader must put together in order to...

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," what does she mean by saying her...

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:08:21 PST

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," what does she mean by saying her "bones felt loose"?

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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:16:17 PST

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Who is George in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"? What's the history?

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:11:56 PST

Who is George in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"? What's the history?