The Two Jilts of Granny Weatherall

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A "jilt", as defined by Webster's Dictionary, means, " To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously. " The character Granny Weatherall, in the short story " The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter, endures two jilts in her life. The first one being that she got jilted, or dropped, by her "bridegroom", George. Her second jilt is that she is dropped by God.

After being left at "the alter" by George, her first true love, Granny Weatherall grows hard and unforgiving towards him, developing a hate for him that will haunt her for eternity. Saying, "the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell", proves this. She continues her life; she marries and has the family she wanted. The whole time she's carrying the hard feelings. If one refers back to the Webster's definition of "jilting", it says, "to de

ceive a lover", if you think about it, didn't Granny deceive the man she married? What I am saying is that you have to have an open heart to love, and anyone that carried that much hatred for someone couldn't have an open heart, love is sometimes said to have a cleansing effect, and it doesn't look like she truly loved her husband. But that is just a thought I pondered on.

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Granny Weatherall gets her sign, she describes her last moments as nothing but darkness "That curled around the light and swallow it up." It is said that usually when people die they are surrounded by light, indicating that they are going to heaven. But Granny is over taken by darkness and she realizes that instead of God and Haspy, which was her favorite daughter that died, coming to take her to heaven, she is actually going to hell. There at the end Granny is still trying

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Approximate Word count = 626
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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