Comparisons and Contrasts of Emily Grierson and Granny Weath

This essay is about the similarities and differences between William Faulkner’s, A Rose For Emily, and Katherine Anne Porter’s, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. These are stories about two very different women, but women who also share some similar aspects in their lives and personalities.

Emily Grierson and Granny Weatherall actually have more things in common in ways then were originally seen when the stories are first read. After reading them again more and more similarities are seen. Emily Grierson is described as coming from a wealthy family and lived in the upper class area of town while she was grown up, which as she grew older started to become the bad part of town. Her house became run down and she no longer had wealth and prestige like she and her family had at one time. In the beginning of Granny Weatherall’s story she describes herself as a beautiful, young woman with fancy clothes when she was younger and talking about her John, the father of her children who died many years before. By the end she is a old, dying woman who’s life became very different in that she became a woman who could take care of herself and had to do everything

As can be seen these two women led to very different lives with some similarities and some differences. One can conclude that family brings happiness not money. Most people would choose to have Granny Weatherall’s life for the happiness then Emily Grierson’s for the money and no happiness.

One similarity that stood out between the both of them is that men they loved jilted them both. A man named Homer Baron was courting Emily and then he leaves and comes back. To the townspeople it looks like he went away while she got her affairs in order but to the reader it seems more like he left her and then somehow she lures in back because in the end he is found dead and lying in a bed upstairs with an indentation of a head, which turned out to be her because she slept in that bed also. She had killed him so that he would always love her. Granny Weatherall was jilted in that she was left at the alter by the man she was to marry before she married John, the father of her children. However, one difference is that she didn’t kill him but you can kind of see at the end of the story that she never fully stopped loving him or got over the situation because as she is dying she wants to see George and tell him that she ended up having the life that she thought she would never have after he left her.

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