Summary Of The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

The short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter a story about life. The theme in this story is that something that really hurt you can affect you through all your life and make you bitter and mean, denial can help you get through but it does not change the truth. In this story granny makes herself believe she was not effected by events in her life when they really did, and refuses to believe she is sick. In the begging of this story granny’s daughter and the doctor know that granny is very ill. Granny is around eighty years old and feels there is so much more for her to do. “When she was sixty she had felt very old, finished, and went making farwell trips to see her children and grandchildren, with a secret in her mind: This is the very last day of your …show more content…
George had hurt granny Weatherall. Sixty years ago he had jilted her. Getting left at the alter was nothing easy. She tells herself that she does not hold any grudges against George and that she did so much better. Close to her end she remembers George, wanting him out of her thoughts. “I want you to find George. Find him and be sure to tell him I forgot him” (Porter 626) she in a sense has forgiven him. “I want him to know that I had a husband just the same and children and my house like any other woman. A good house too a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him. Better I hoped for even. Tell him I given back everything he took away and more” (Porter 626). This tells about the great life that she ended up having. She loved her husband very much and her children. Even though George had put her through pain granny made herself believe it did not affect her. In reality it did affect her, because she still remembers even after so much time has passed. Even though she had a good life after George hurt her she still remembered it and it did not change the fact that it had really hurt