Abstract This essay, about Katharine AnnePorter, focuses on her stories about the character Miranda, specifically ?Old Mortality,? ?Pale Horse, Pale Rider,? and ?The Old Order.? The paper relates Miranda in these stories to the South after the Civil War, which is where and when the stories take place.
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the similarities and differences between KatherineAnnePorter's "He" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat", including a conclusion that provides reasons for favoring one story over the other.
From the Paper "The short stories "He" by Katherine Anne Porter and "Heat" by Joyce Carole Oates share many similarities as Oates tended to re-imagine the works of classic writers. However despite a number of similarities in each work with respect to setting themes and ..."
Abstract This essay explores the idea that Porter's three books "Noon Wine", "Flowering Judas" and "Theft", despite seemingly diverse story lines, all have the central theme of betrayal.
From the Paper "Katherine Anne Porter writes with a pen of diversity, creating storylines that contrast each other in seemingly every aspect of fiction. Her Noon Wine, Flowering Judas, and Theft detail their plots with dissimilar settings, characters, writing techniques, and actions to ensure each claims a new experience in fiction. Yet the Porter trio have enough psychological similarities in thesis to generate the same meaning. In each story, betrayal emerges as the central theme."
Abstract This paper compares the characters and lives of Emily Grierson, from William Faulkner's novel "A Rose for Emily", and Granny Weatherall ,from KatherineAnnePorter's novel "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The paper discusses the similar character traits the characters share and explains how both were affected by a similar, life-changing event in their youths that became the tragedy of their lives . The paper also contrasts how each character chose to deal with that tragedy, pointing out that Emily allowed her past to turn her into a depraved and perverse character, while Granny chose not to let her past dictate her life and instead built a life of warmth, dignity and compassion and understood that life was what you made of it, for better or for worse.
From the Paper "The two characters presented for comparison bare likeness to each other in several respects. Each are presented as strong-willed and defiant. They both were raised during an era where existed a strict southern code of manners and appearance. Unfortunately, this code is based on appearance rather than truth. Southern society placed great emphasis on a woman's conduct and each of the women acted according to this unwritten code. The secrets that they concealed and the demeanors they chose to display to society differ from reality. Emily Grierson's fa?ade of gentleness conceals her iron-willed strength capable of even murderous acts. Granny Weatherall is perceived as an ailing lady of forgotten memory and time. Both ladies were significantly affected by events in youth that became the tragedy of their lives. They were both jilted by their young loves. The difference between Emily and Granny lies in the effect this betrayal had upon the remainder of their existence."
This paper offers an examination of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and KatherineAnnPorter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."
Abstract An examination of how the protagonists in three short stories view religion: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and KatherineAnnPorter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."
From the Paper "In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" we see all three protagonists, the grandmother, Goodman Brown and Granny respectively reject as true the values religious ideology asked them to accept at face value on faith. However, while the grandmother and Goodman Brown reject those values as false, the grandmother maintains these values until her untimely death."
Tags: God, religion, society, values, mores, customs, hardship, evil, sin
Abstract The symbolic representation within "Theft" by KatherineAnnePorter and William Saroyan's "The Resurrection of a Life" are analyzed throughout this literary study. By understanding how a stolen purse depicts economic in the Great Depression of the 1930s; one can also realize how war becomes a personal account of death through the eyes of a young boy in World War I. It is shown in this paper that, in this manner, the symbolic value of these stories reflects personal experiences and philosophical views of life as portrayed through these authors.
From the Paper "This literary study will examine the nature of symbolic representation within the short stories "Theft" by Katherine Anne Porter and "The Resurrection of a Life" by William Saroyan. In "Theft" one can realize how a purse becomes the symbol for Great Depression Era poverty and desperation in Porter's writing. Also, war becomes the symbol for death and destruction in Saroyan's depiction of ware experiences within his lifetime. This study will analyze how symbolism is reflected within these two classic short stories. In Saroyan's short story "A Resurrection of a Life" he uses the symbolism of war to reflect his own feelings about death. The tale revolves around a paperboy in 1917 that is poverty stricken due to the events that warfare has brought about him."
Abstract This paper provides a psychoanalytic reading of KatherineAnnePorter's Flowering Judas and focuses on the dysfunctional behavior of the story's two main characters, Braggioni, a leader of the Mexican revolution, and Laura, a young American who is both a revolutionary and a teacher. Included in the paper is a summary of the major principles of psychoanalytic criticism.
From the Paper "Although these two characters are presented as ideological opposites ? Braggioni's corruption and selfishness versus Laura's honesty and altruism ? a closer look reveals them to be more alike than different. Both are driven by fear, a fear of betrayal as well as a fear of intimacy. Ultimately, both betray the very principles they claim to uphold."
Abstract This paper describes the deathbed experience of the main character in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The paper tells us about the past of the Granny Weatherall and describes her feisty personality. The event that occurred in her life that gives meaning to the title of the story is explained and analyzed. When explaining the process of dying as experienced by Granny Weatherall, the paper refers to each of the stages in the "five stages of dying".
From the Paper "Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is a poignant story about the last hours of a dying woman. Porter takes her readers through the life of an eighty year old woman as she drifts in and out of consciousness, in and out of reality. Although, she has had a good life on the whole, Ellen Weatherall is haunted by a past experience that she cannot forgive or forget."
Abstract This paper discusses KatherineAnnePorter'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.
From the Paper "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!" "
Abstract In this article, the writer introduces, discusses and analyzes the short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by KatherineAnnePorter. Specifically, the writer discusses the theme of time in the story. The writer explains that this short story follows the last hours of Granny Weatherall, an eighty-year-old woman who lives with her daughter and is about to die. The writer notes that the story condenses the pain and triumph of her life into a few hours, and so it condenses all her time alive into just a tiny speck that seems to mean very little. The writer concludes that everyone, no matter how old they are, needs more time, and this short story's theme demonstrates that while all anyone really has in life is time, it is never enough in the end.
From the Paper "This indicates how people really think about life - there will always be more time tomorrow. Granny's life has been a disappointment to her in many ways, and now, as she lies dying, she still wants to do something more, something that will matter and keep her busy. She has kept herself busy to pass the time and to keep from thinking about memories she does not want to remember. She has had years to dispose of those letters, and yet she has put it off until it is too late. This shows the reader that time is fleeting and they should not put off the things they hope to accomplish in life, because it can be over in a second."
"Granny's thoughts also show something else that is common with the passage of time. She wants to go back and live her life again, and live it differently."
An analysis of love and separateness found in "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Melamud, "Maria Concepcion" by KatherineAnnPorter and "Feathers" by Raymond Carver.
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Abstract This paper discusses the concept of love and separateness found in the short stories "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Melamud, "Maria Concepcion" by KatherineAnnPorter and "Feathers" by Raymond Carver. The paper describes how each author portrays love within their story and discusses the complexities surrounding this particular human condition.
From the Paper "The authors know as well as any that the popular idea of romantic love embedded in western cultural consciousness does not exist. Despite this understood truth, the myth remains and its debunking continues to inspire great art. Carver, Malamud and Porter do not suggest universal truths; their vision is one of relayed experience. Carver in Feathers betrays himself through the intimately written details of dysfunctional marriage. This closeness is also suggested in Malamud's The Magic Barrel; his sly witticism as to Jewish customs and the bookish young man who rejects them suggests intimate recollection. Porter may not have grown up in a village, yet the perfectly rendered emotional states of love spurned in Maria Concepcion imply she writes what she knows. As mentioned, the writers do not expound answers to love's real meaning. What they have done masterfully is explore the complexities surrounding a human condition - the pursuit of love to express physical passion and to ease loneliness. Taping into a great universal influence, this flows though art and life like an undersea current."
Abstract This paper will discuss the book "Ship of Fools" by KatherinePorter, and seek to understand it main objectives in the way that it conveys meaning to the reader. By understanding this old story, in the format of a Texan point of view, we can see the author's native application to an old story coming through in the tale. The characters have different names, but ideas of travel are the no different in this version of the story.
Abstract Discusses the theme of the human capacity for violence, the elements that make the story effective, the elements of fiction in the story, Porter's approach, the story's pastoral setting, and the four major characters.
From the Paper "Katherine Anne Porter's story "Noon Wine" has been labeled a masterpiece by some critics. In this story, Porter addresses the issue of the human capacity for violence, and Porter herself has said of the story that "everyone in this story contributes, one..."
Abstract This essay analyzes the diction of "Katherine" by Anya Seton in terms of whether the language is concrete or abstract, whether the words have interesting connotations, whether the diction is formal or colloquial and what inferences can be drawn about the speaker from the word choice of the speaker.
