Analysis:
The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall
By Chrissy Hall
BACKGROUND: THE JILTING
OF GRANNY WEATHERALL
 By Katheine Anne Porter.
 Written in the 1930’s. Published in the short story collection
Flowering Judas and Other Stories.
 Hapsy. “I thought you’d never come. You haven’t changed a
bit!”…
 Significance: “God give a sign”. Granny blows out her own
light.
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LIFE OF KATHERINE

In Born
1922 in
she1890;
confessed
she had wanted a family but had many
died inthat
1980.
miscarriages.
She Russell
was married
 Born Callie
Porterto Ernest Stock who had given her
ghonerrea. She divorced him.
 Her mother died of complications of childbirth. Her father moved the
 children
In the late
and early Texas
50's, Porter
taught
Stanford
and the
the family lived
to 40's
San Antonio,
with his
strictatmother
where
University
of Michigan.
in poverty.

Porter
herself
admired
says shestarting
was influenced
bynumerous
Jane Austen,
Porter
had four
failedand
marriages,
at 16, and
love
Emily
Bronte, Henry James and Virginia Woolf.
affairs.
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KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
"I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be
fiction." "I have a great deal of religious symbolism in
my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion
and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you
don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree
stand for betrayal,' but of course it does." - KAP
REFERENCES
 Laman, Barbara. "Porter's 'The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall'." Explicator
48.4 (1990): 279-281. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 5 Feb.
2012.
 Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Katherine Anne
Porter." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and
Reference Guide. 5 Fed. 2012.
URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/porter.htm