Dec 20, 2009

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | Style

Early in her career, Porter came to be admired as an innovative and masterful stylist. In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," she uses experimental, modernist narrative techniques in creating a moving and believable portrait of an eighty-year-old woman on her deathbed.

Stream-of-Consciousness Narration
One of the most striking stylistic aspects of ' 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall'' is its unusual narrative perspective. Though the story is written in the third person, its narrative point of view is extremely close to that of the central character, Granny Weatherall....