In the beginning of the story, Granny feels only a sense of being tired. She does not realize that she is dying. Long ago, when Granny was sixty, she put to rest the thought of dying. Being very ill, she goes through the actions of saying good-bye and making out a will. Granny does not die from the illness; she sees the whole thing as just a concept like other things in life. From this she gets over her fear of dying once and for all. This segment in her life contributes to her not realizing or her denying the fact that she, now eighty years old, is really dying.

It is implied that Hapsy is a favorite daughter who died while giving birth to her infant son. Porter says, "She had to go a long way back through a great many rooms to find Hapsy...." Ellen really wants to see Hapsy and has to go deep in her mind to remember her. The significance of seeing her again represents a sign of impending death for Granny.

As Ellen does not realize she is dying, she remembers work still yet to be done, including going through the old letters from George and John, and says, "...that would be tomorrow's business." The letters from the two men in her life make her feel uneasy; she does not want the children to find them after she passes and see how foolish she had once been. She recalls her children and how she has raised them; she sees this as an accomplishment. Being completed, the hard work done along the way, she also sees as an accomplishment. She wishes to go back to the days when her children were young even though there were hard times; she does not feel that it was more than she could handle. She wishes to see John to show him what a good job she had done keeping on top of chores and raising the children but thinks to herself, "...that would have to wait. That was for tomorrow."

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