The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Notes

Granny Weatherall is sick and Doctor Harry has come to check on her Granny Weatherall is sick and Doctor Harry has come to check on her. She is so sick that she is getting disoriented, and feeling like her bones are loose. Doctor Harry seems to be floating around her. Granny is nearly 80 years old. Granny doesn’t seem to realize how sick she is.

As she lays in bed, Granny begins to think of things she needs to do the next day, which includes hiding love letters to and from two former boyfriends. Granny is very upset with her daughter, Cornelia because she thinks that Cornelia treats her like a child. As she thinks about her younger years, she seems proud of the work she did—cleaning house and caring for her children.

Granny thinks of her husband John, who apparently died many years before. She wants to see him and make sure that he knows what a good job she did after he died, but she’s afraid he won’t recognize her. Through her thoughts, we find that sixty years before, Granny had been left at the altar by the man she thought she would marry.

Granny desperately wants to see Hapsy, maybe this is one of her children who lives far away, or is dead and will welcome her to the afterlife. She decides she wants to see George again, the man that jilted her, and tell him that she forgot about him and that she moved on and had a great life despite what he did to her.

Cornelia brings a priest to her mother for a final confession before she dies. As Granny gets closer to dying, her thoughts come faster and more random. She feels that she is not ready to die because there are so many things she didn’t take care of. Granny finally gives in to the over-powering feeling, curling her body inward, and “blew out the light.”