Granny’s hard knock life In Katherine Anne Porter’s short story, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” there is a vivid picture of an elderly woman’s last moments and storm of mentality on her death bed. The story is shown as a stream of consciousness in which granny remembers the grievances she had throughout her life. This making it obvious to the reader that she has had not one, or two, but three jilting in her life that has affected her character through the last shreds of her life. Her past love George, the death of her husband John, and the absence of god on her death bed, all affected granny’s life and personality. The first pitiable jilting of Granny Weatherall was done at the altar by a man named George who she once was deeply in love with; this jilting affected her life in many ways.
This is the opening sentence in Aunt Ida’s narrative. Now an old woman, Ida realizes that she has been going on about life carrying anger towards everyone, much like her own mother did. It all started as a young girl when her mother got sick. Her mom’s sister, Clara, was sent to come live with her family to help out. Aunt Clara is different than anything Ida has seen before.
She lies on her death bed and think back over her life and how she was young capable and strong. But now she can’t do nothing but lie in bed and wait to die. Cornelia, her daughter doesn’t demonstrate much patients when it comes to her mother, (I was blessed with patience when my mother had to be taken care of).constantly nagged about being old and not wanting her to do anything around the house. But with Granny Weatherall memories of her life and silly father: which her father had lived to be over one hundred years old and had drunk a noggin of strong hot toddy on his last birthday.... how she worked hard all her life and took care of everybody else. (My mother was also the “Help“) Not realizing that Time itself has taken a toll on health and life (My mother was 73 when she past).
When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” (Pg. 1, 3rd Paragraph). She even says that she would cry at his funeral. While she is sad at first she starts to stop crying every time she thinks about being free from her husband and being and independent women.
Because she believes this she writes her will and makes trips to visit all of her children. This becomes a jilt because she doesn’t die. The third jilt is when she is on her death bed and again asks God for a sign. When there is no sign she is greatly disappointed and believes she will never forgive God for
The first baby dies during childbirth and is buried in the back yard. Her only company comes when she gives birth to her son Jack a year later. Due to these events, Ma battled with depression. Ma’s depression has a huge impact on her life because she thinks about how she is trapped in Room every day. When Ma’s “Gone” as Jack words it, she lies in bed all day and Jack is forced to care for himself.
Day to day the waiting brought grief and sorrow to the daughter and her mother. They longed for him to return. “Mother, when will the war be over?” “It is hard to say. Hopefully soon.” The daughter began to weep. The sadness and pain of waiting for weeks had overcome her.
When the word come down that her husband had been in a train accident and feared dead her family and friends knew to break the news to her as easily as they possibly could. Knowing how Mrs. Mallard felt about her husband for a few minutes she became inconsolable and cried in the arms of her sister, Clugston, (2010) “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone” (sec 2.2. para 3). After Mrs. Mallard goes to her room and sits down in the chair and starts looking out of the window things for her start to change even though she
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“The Story of an Hour” describes the series of emotions Louise Mallard is feeling after hearing of the death of her husband, who she believes has died in a railroad disaster. “The Story of an Hour” follows Mrs. Louise Mallard and an hour of her life, during which her husband has died in a railroad accident. Upon receiving the news, she seems to be thrown into a downward spiral of emotions mourning for his death. As she falls deeper into grief, little hints are revealed that her mourning is progressing into the joy of her freedom. Great care was taken to tell Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, of her husband’s death, Brently Mallard, during a railroad disaster.