Jilting Of Granny Weatherall Essay

Life comes with its highs and its lows, and some of those lows are matters that are difficult to get past. With this, comes one of the most crucial parts of overcoming a difficulty: acceptance. There are those who can easily push past hardships, but a majority of people can never truly get over the personal catastrophies that life brings. Times of pain and crisis are some of the most stressful moments in life that one can attempt to get past. In The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Ann Porter, Granny, the protagonist, is having trouble accepting events in her life. Granny proves different themes of acceptance through the story’s conflict, climax, and flashback. First of all, Granny potrays the theme that accepting personal challenges can be taxing through the flashback of her wedding with George. As she lies on her deathbed, Granny looks back to the time when she got jilted at the wedding altar. She tries to comfort herself on this painful memories by thinking, “Don’t let your wounded vanity get the upper hand of you. Plenty of girls get jilted. You were jilted; weren’t you? Then stand up to it” (446). Granny also tries to convince herself that she has had a great life with her late husband, John. She also tells herself that she has completely forgotten about George and that she was …show more content…
Leading up to the climax, Granny decides that her time has come and that it is time to look for God. She searches for a sign from God, the first time she sees nothing. Granny tries a second time, and there is still no sign of him. She gives up in looking for him and thinks to herself, “Oh, no, there’s nothing more cruel than this-- I’ll never forgive it” (449). At this point in time, Granny feels that God does not care or has forgotten about her, and for this, she will never accept the fact that he did not give her a sign of