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    A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
    A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
    A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
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    A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

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    A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Jilting of Granny Weatherall," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535826501
    A Study Guide for Katherine Anne Porter's "Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

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      The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

      Katherine Anne Porter

      1929

      Introduction

      Katherine Anne Porter’s story, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall was first published in transition magazine in February, 1929. The story, concerning a dying woman’s memory of being left at the altar on her wedding day and her current fear of being jilted in a similar manner by God, was subsequently collected in Porter’s first published book, Flowering Judas. She has said that the character of Granny Weatherall was based on her own grandmother and that the story was the first of many of her works to be inspired by her Texas roots. Porter’s often fragile health may have also influenced the story. In 1918, she nearly died of influenza; funeral arrangements had been made and her obituary written. In her autobiography, Porter stated that the experience made her different from others: I had what the Christians call the ’beatific vision,’ and the Greeks called the ’happy day,’ the happy vision just before death, Such experience may have led her to explore that moment of death in her fiction, a moment in which Granny Weatherall feels that her body is a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. Nevertheless, the story has remained popular since its publication for the complexities and ambiguities inherent in its stream-of-consciousness narrative and for its carefully drawn portrait of a Southern matriarch confronting the sum total of her

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