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By Chrissy Hall Analysis: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

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  Born in 1890; died in  Born Callie Russell Porter  Her mother died of complications of childbirth. Her father moved the children to San Antonio, Texas with his strict mother where the family lived in poverty.  Porter had four failed marriages, starting at 16, and numerous love affairs.  In 1922 she confessed that she had wanted a family but had many miscarriages. She was married to Ernest Stock who had given her ghonerrea. She divorced him.  In the late 40's and early 50's, Porter taught at Stanford and the University of Michigan.  Porter herself admired and says she was influenced by Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Henry James and Virginia Woolf.

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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): MLA International Bibliography. Web. 5 Feb  Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century - Katherine Anne Porter." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. 5 Fed URL: