In the short story titled “The Jilting of Granny Weatheral,” Katherine Ann Porter claims that old people hold onto love and pain. Porter supports her claim by showing the audience glimpses into Granny Weatheral's memories. The author’s purpose is to show the audience in a reflective tone that even though people age, their memories still express their love and heartbreak. To begin with, Granny Weatheral has memories of love that were just as real as they were when she first experienced them. “All those letters - George’s letters and John’s letters and her letters to them both - lying around for the children to find afterwards made her uneasy.” They letters she wrote were written about being in love, she hide from her children for years. She
