The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

As a literary style, stream of consciousness offers the uninterrupted and nonlinear thoughts of the story's narrator. Objectivity plays no role, as all events are filtered through the flow of the...

Granny Weatherall is first jilted by George many years before when he fails to show up for their wedding. On this occasion, she was left alone with a priest and it leaves an indelible mark on her....

Stream-of-consciousness is appropriate to Granny's thoughts as she lies dying because her mind moves in and out from memory to a blurred conception of the present. Devised by the Modernists as part...

Both J. Alfred Prufrock and Granny Weatherall are quite focused on either the possibility or the reality of being rejected, and both connect rejection with death. Prufrock wishes to ask a woman...

This story is written from the third person point of view. A key indicator that the narration is third person is the usage of pronouns like "she." More specifically, the story is written in the...

The text does not explain why Hapsy does not come to Granny Weatherall’s deathbed, nor does it tell us where Hapsy is. However, toward the end of the story, when Granny asks her daughter Cornelia...

The name "Weatherall" implies exactly what it seems to imply. Granny seems to have, over the course of her life, "weathered all" of life's hardships and disappointments. She recalls various...

Ellen Weatherall is stubborn and even a little combative. "She flicked her wrist neatly" out of the doctor's fingers as he is attempting to examine her, and she "pulled the sheet up to her chin,"...

To think about the meaning of a name, start first with the literal meaning, and then second with the associated or metaphorical meaning. To "weather" something is to make it through; the expression...

There are several symbols in Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Symbols of Christianity A candle, a crucifix, and a rosary are on a table covered with linen (as is an...

When Granny thinks about hell, she is thinking about the day she was jilted and the mental anguish she suffers when she thinks about George. She prayed for sixty years trying to forget George,...

In life and in her dying, Granny is haunted by the memory of her "jilting." As Granny recalls all her accomplishments in life, she feels a sense of pride that she has been productive. "You waste...

Granny Weatherall is, of course, on her deathbed. As she is dying, she hallucinates, her mind moving in and out of the conscious world. "A long way back through a great many rooms," she finds her...

As George is the name of the man that jilted Granny Weatherall all those years ago, and as this is still something that Granny Weatherall remembers with shame and embarrassment, we can infer that...

Katherine Anne Porter's short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is the tale of a woman who suffers a terrible situation in her youth: She is jilted at the altar on the day of her wedding day...

Since "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" involves stream-of-consciousness there is a great deal that goes on in Granny's mind that does not find itself in reality; as a result, the outcome is very...

I would say that Doctor Harry is a flat character, and that his flatness is appropriate to the story. He's flat because he's just a set of tics and external characteristics, described from the...

Granny Weatherall is irritated by Doctor Harry's presence. She feels that Doctor Harry patronizes her, so she does not enjoy his visits. More than anything, she is upset that a doctor half her age...

That is a very interesting quote you have given about this author and the effect that she achieves with her stories. I supposed from this story, however, one of the main cherished illusions that we...

Part of the irony of this story is that Granny feels she is on her feet now "morally speaking". However, she is dying isolated, waiting for a sign from God that never comes. She...

George was the man to whom Granny was engaged when she was twenty. He jilted her at the altar on their wedding day, and sixty years later, the memory of the pain of his abandonment still has the...

The arrival of Father Connolly heralds another moment of bitter-sweet humour as he begins to perform the Last Rites on Granny Weatherall. Crucial to understanding the story is the point of view...

Cornelia is Granny's daughter who is caring for Granny. Granny seems mostly annoyed by Cornelia. She says that Cornelia is too good and dutiful and she needs a spanking. When Cornelia is crying...

The narrative of the story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" follows the stream of consciousness style. This means that the sequence of events will not follow a traditional order, and the point of...

In the short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," many details illustrate Granny's physical and emotional strength as she lies on her deathbed. Granny remembers her physical strength when she...

Of course, the stream of consciousness narrative adopted by the author gives us a real insight into Granny Weatherall's character. Clearly, if you read this story, hopefully you cannot fail to...

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter portrays the death of an elderly woman. In the beginning of the story, Ellen Weatherall does not realize that she is dying. She lies in...

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," by Katherine Anne Porter, I think that Granny wants to see George, sixty years after their break-up, to tell him that she forgot about him; however, I think...

Granny Weatherall conflicts with Doctor Harry, who treats her like a little girl despite the fact that he is so much younger than she is. He says to her, "'Now, now, be a good girl, and we'll have...

The man who "cursed like a sailor's parrot" is an unnamed character who was present long ago when Granny realized she had been jilted at her wedding. At that moment, Granny was so overwhelmed that...

Granny Weatherall isn't ready to die yet, or so she thinks, because she has not experienced the stereotypical "seeing the light, the tunnel, Jesus holding out his hands" type of...

This excellent story is actually quite a challenge to piece together as the narrative method adopted, the stream of consciousness method, allows for a very incoherent jumping of one memory or...

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," passages such as these serve as figurative language to describe the foggy mind of the dying protagonist. The doctor, for example, is in no way literally...

Granny Weatherall was jilted at the alter by George. She waited for George and he never showed up. On her deathbed, she waits for Hapsy and a sign from God or Jesus that this is her time and she...

John is Granny's husband who had died many years previously. On the day she was jilted, her world was collapsing, but John's "caught her under the breast, she had not fallen." John...

Traditionally, blue is the color of stability, calm, and order; however, it also respresents other feelings such as depression. As the color of the sky, blue has an expansiveness to it, too. In...

After all of her children begin to arrive, understanding that her death is fast approaching, Granny Ellen Weatherall realizes that "she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to...

As the tenacious eighty-year-old Granny Weatherall lies in her deathbed she experiences a stream of thoughts and memories, especially as she recalls her being jilted at the altar of her marriage....

In her moments of dying, Granny tells Cornelia that she wants to send a message to George or would like to see him. She wants to prove to him that, even though he jilted her, she was able to move...

The memory that was most painful to Granny was the day she was jilted by George "...since the day the wedding cake was not cut, but thrown out and wasted." Granny, Ellen, felt like the...

This story is told from the point of view of a third-person narrator who sees into the mind of Granny Weatherall as she in engaged in what is know as stream of consciousness. Naturally as the dying...

Two other qualities that Granny values highly are a sense of order and he independence. Granny has worked hard for years to keep her life in order. She talks about the shelves being ordered and...

Let us remember that this incredible story allows us to see the dying thoughts and cares and concerns of a woman who is thinking about preparing herself for death. She has so many things that she...

At the very beginning of the story, from the very first paragraph, Granny is extraordinarily disdainful of the doctor. She even goes as far as to refer to him a "brat" in her head. She is convinced...

Granny Wetherall has encountered many challenges during her long, hard life. One might say she's weathered many storms. Whatever life's thrown at her, she's always managed to get through...

While she is sick, Granny notes that she "isn't too old yet" to give advice to Lydia about her children. Her son Jimmy had continued to ask her for business advice. Granny indicates that Cornelia...

This is the first paragraph of the story:She flicked her wrist neatly out of Doctor Harry’s pudgy careful fingers and pulled the sheet up to her chin. The brat ought to be in knee breeches....

You asked two questions in your original question, and enotes specifies that you are only able to ask one, so I have edited it to focus on the humour in the text. Clearly, if you read this story,...

Considering that the story is narrated as a stream of consciousness, one might want to start stating that she is narrating from one same setting, but jumping from memory to memory. It would not be...

The descriptions of nature or weather in the story reflect Granny Weatherall's state of mind. The morning of her death her bed felt "pleasant as a hammock in a light wind". However,...