Jan 1, 2010

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | Themes

A portrait of an eighty-year-old woman on her deathbed, ''The Jilting of Granny Weatherall'' is an exploration of the human mind as it struggles to come to terms with loss and mortality. Porter offers no clear resolution to these fundamental issues, but instead interweaves themes of betrayal, religion, death, and memory in a moving and poetic character study.

Betrayal
The titles of both the story and the anthology (Flowering Judas) in which it first appeared suggest the idea of betrayal, a central theme underlying many of Porter's stories. Judas was the...