Jilting of Granny Weatherall Analysis

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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, describes the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly woman. As Granny Weatherall’s life is fading she sees her life before her eyes and the title all of a sudden makes more sense. She is filled with disappointment due to relationships in her life. She has failed with everything and everyone in her life. She is filled with fear in her last moments, all alone. In her most final moments, as she felt herself slipping into death, she could not find a sign of God, George, or John to welcome her. Not only was she jilted in life by the two most important people in it, but also in death and by the most important man-figure of all, God. “Granny lay…staring at the point of light that was herself; her body was now only a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. God, give a sign. She had once again been left by herself, altar of death. “For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. The story is a symbolism of Sammy coming to age. It represents him maturing. Throughout the piece you can see him changing. It starts off with him just analyzing materialistic things like what the people are wearing, and by the end he has come to a realization that he might be stuck in a lower socioeconomic group, as well as how others act and perceive how people act. When the manager makes reference to Sammy's decision and in it's effect on his parents, it shows Sammy's coming-of-age. He is leaving his adolescence behind and this always has some effect on

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