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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter

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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," deals with various elements of literature that we have discussed throughout the semester. In this story, a grandmother is on the verge of death and not willing to cope with the fact the she is about to die. Instead, she spends her time trying to tell her children how to live their lives and what their tasks will be for the next day. She is so wrapped up in not worrying about dying that she does not even realize she is minutes away from death. Within this story, one can find several literary elements, including the plot, the characters portrayed, and the setting of the story. This story begins with an elderly woman (Granny Weatherall) being visited by a doctor. Granny Weatherall is nearing death but not wanting to cope with that. She refers to the doctor as not being old enough to be able to know that she is dying and that she went through various troubles and sicknesses before he was even born. One of her daughters, Cornelia, is there with her and the doctor. Granny Weatherall has many children, but Cornelia is the only one there with her while she is dying. To avoid talking about her death, Granny Weatherall reminds herself of what all she must do tomorrow and other chores and tasks that she has to accomplish. She thinks about how she had love letters written to her from her husband and another man and that she needs to get rid of the letters from the other man before she dies. She also talks about about she was ready to die twenty years ago but that never happened. Her father lived to be over one hundred years old, which he believed to be because he had liquor drink every night. After her husband died, Granny Weatherall had to take over all the chores of the land and the house, which included manual labor that her husband used to do (fencing in the land), as well as take care of their children. She reminisces about when she was to be married to George, and that he never showed up and that she hates him for that. The only daughter that comes to see her, Cornelia, tries to comfort her and ease her pain, but she wants nothing to do with that. She does not want to come to terms with the fact that she is on her death bed and that only one of her children is with her. Granny is positive that she will go to heaven, so she isn't concerned with the priest who is there by her side to comfort her during this time. All of her children come to be by her side during her last breaths of life, though she is only concerned about her favorite chil

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