Summary Of The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

The story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” written by Katherine Anne Porter starts out with an eighty year old woman named Granny Weatherall in a hospital bed disputing with her doctor whom she thinks is childish. Doctor Harry was telling her to stay in bed , there she would gain strength, as he touched her forehead then cheek. As a consequence She reminds the doctor that she has lived through further more serious illnesses before he was even born. Granny Weatherall would reply with “Leave a woman alone. I’ll call you when I demand you.” The Grandmother overhears the doctor along with her daughter Cornelia talking about her sickness, consequently it agitated her. Granny detects herself hiding letters, then engrossed about death. She speaks of how she has been prepared to die for the past twenty years. Granny remembers all the times she was strong and could accomplish tasks on her own. Granny despised how Cornella acts towards her in such a way she doesn’t understand anything. She wishes, John was able to watch their children as they were older than

When the doctor tries to help her, although she only thinks he’s trying to hurt her. The Doctor makes her feel as if she is too elderly to accomplish anything on her own,yet she is sicker than she thinks she realizes. She has feelings of regret when she thinks of John and their kids, although she continuously hides the fact that George abandoned her at the altar. She speaks as if George were there, nevertheless she means to tell him she doesn't miss him along with has had a successful life without him. She denies the fact that George has hurt her, consequently she has found happiness within another. The setting of the story may reflect on the feeling or paralysis as she cannot move. Granny Weatherall feels a great pressure of regret when she feels she is dying as she can no longer speak or talk to anyone in a state of