Compare And Contrast The Storm And The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

Both Kate Chopin and Katherine Anne Porter have had their issues with love and they seem to show it through the eyes of a reader with their main characters in their short stories “The Storm” and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. Chopin had married Oscar Chopin, a Creole cotton broker, at nineteen and he later pass away in 1883 which had left her with six children to raise own her own. As this shocking turn of events inspired Chopin to start writing, critics have taken her work as too explicit and it wasn 't published until after her death. At age sixteen, Porter had run away from home and married a railway clerk in Louisiana which she would later end up divorcing three years later to support herself as a reporter, actress, and ballad singer. While traveling, sojourns in Europe and Mexico had supplied her with materials for some her most recognized stories today which received harsh criticism and commercial success. Overall, Kate Chopin and Katherine Anne Porter share similarities with love and they both express them in “The Storm” and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” thoroughly; for example, Granny …show more content…
These were about women that were shaken by their pasts and would not let go of what they have already had. Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” was about an elderly woman that was trying to overcome her past and get an answer from God in the end of whether she had been loved. Calixta, in Chopin’s “The Storm”, was not necessarily torn by her past, but had an emotional response for what she failed to desire and found herself running back to it right away. In conclusion, Kate Chopin and Katherine Anne Porter share similarities with love and they both express them in “The Storm” and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” thoroughly; for example, Granny is devasted from George not showing up to the wedding and Calixta commits adultery with her previous