"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

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This paper discusses Katherine Anne Porter's 1930 short story, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The paper examines the character of the story's protagonist, Granny Weatherall. The paper presents the story as largely an extended stream-of-consciousness narrative that depicts the various thoughts and perceptions that flicker through the dying granny's mind, in a way that gives insight into the woman's character and her development from young girl, to wife, to old and respected matron.

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"Granny Weatherall's character becomes evident in the first line she speaks over the story's introduction. "Get along now. Take your schoolbooks and go. There's nothing wrong with me." She snaps at the attending, ultimately ineffectual Doctor Harry, as well as her daughter Cornelia. Granny uses her eighty years as a defense for her caustic tone-she should know when she needs a doctor she implies, because she has suffered more in her life than both of these two individual's existences combined. Granny's characteristic frugality and independence are reinforced when she adds, "I pay my own bills, and I don't throw my money away on nonsense!" "

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