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Criticism of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

            Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton writes that in the story of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" that the reader is drawn into the life Granny Weatherall and seems to travel through important memories of her life and see these events from Granny perspective. Piedmont-Marton offers her interpretation of what she feels the theme of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall".
             Marton feels the story is focused around Granny Weatherall, a dying woman who is recounting the memories of her life even up to the worst moment of her life. Granny Weatherall was a woman who lived her life in a very orderly fashion, who was greatly liked, who took care of details, and made plans, who but expected things to go in a certain matter. Granny also took pleasure in looking back on all her accomplishments of her life from the hard work that she took on and completed to her children that she raised. But as orderly nature falters she starts to remember back to the day when her faith in order and detail was shattered the worst moment of her life when she was jilted at the altar by George. Now Granny is in her dying hours and she's forced come to terms with her jilting. Granny Weatherall believes that her prayers to God and how orderly she lived her life that it would ensure that she would never be made to feel like she felt on that day. But once again she was jilted when she asked for a sign and for the second time there was none. .
             The climactic moment in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", according to Marton is when all the doubt and betrayal finally start to disappear as Granny Weatherall dies. Granny always felt that being left at the altar was the worse thing to happen to her. Marton states even though the story would have lead readers to believe Granny being left at the altar was the worse thing to happen to her it was not. It is her death that is the biggest jilt of all and the sorrow from it is so great she it wiped out what other grief she may have felt away which brings out the second meaning in the title of this story.


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