Granny's Personalities in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter

Granny 's Personalities in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter This story is very interesting. It does have characters like others fictions whose liven up a story. But it 's definitely draw readers ' attention to the main and the strongest character, which is Granny Weatherall. Her name is Ellen Weatherall. She is an elderly women. She does have a supportive daughter who is taking care of her in her frail days. She is suffering a psychological distortion that affect the health of her mental cognition, which in turn will have an effect on her personalities. Her good traits seem gone while she is enduring this illness. She was a strong, independent, and religious women, but still then, she retain her religiosity. She exposes her negative-self 's in her final days. She is described as a bad-tempered and irritable old lady. The most attention grabbing of all her negative traits is her dislike with her children, this is due to her obsession with a long gone daughter named Hapsy. These positive and negative qualities bring this character to live. First of all, her strong and hardiness quality has a historical relation from living in the old days. People who live in that day were living without electricity, "Lighting the lamps had been beautiful" (Porter 407), and they tend to grow they own crops to provide their own food, "I want you to pick all the fruits this year and see that nothing is wasted"(Porter 407). Besides that, the feeling of abandonment from her first wedding, when the groom who never showed up, is the major contribution for her strength. "Don 't let your wounded vanity get the upper hand of you. Plenty girls get jilted. You were jilted, weren 't you. Then stand up for it"(Porter408), she did stand up for it, and she survives. Secondly, Granny Weatherall does not like to be a burden for someone, she likes to be an independent woman as she used too. She feels that having an independence will empowered her, "Sometimes Granny

Cited: Porter, Katherine Anne. "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts. 9th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 405-10.