In five pages this paper examines whether being jilted embittered Granny or if it was her angry disposition that was responsible for the jilting.
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is a very good reason for this statement. When a woman is forgotten, jilted, or forsaken, many things can happen. Some curl up and go into hiding, while others cry
constantly. Still others plot revenge. Regardless of what the reaction is however, most woman undergo one thing when they are "forsaken" - and that one thing is bitterness, rejection and
terrible sorrow. Abandonment is a very difficult thing for a woman to recover from; and the woman who has abandoned on the altar has a whole lifetime of battles ahead
of her. Ellen Weatherall, the main character in Katherine Anne Porters short story The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, isnt much different
in her feelings of abandonment when she, herself, is jilted on her wedding day. The story opens as Ellen, known affectionately as "Granny" because, well, she is one, is on
her death bed and shes surrounded by all of her loved ones, doctors and even a priest. Suddenly, it seems, she drifts into her past - way into her past
- and remember the day that she was jilted by her husband-to-be, George Heatherton. The major question here is the same one that concerns many women in her position; does
Granny become a bitter woman because of the jilting? Or was she bitter to begin with, and was it that bitterness that caused the jilting? This paper will prove that
the answer to the question was the former; that perhaps, if she had been allowed to marry her true love - or perhaps, if she hadnt been jilted by him
- that she wouldnt have been the bossy, crusty woman that had little or no compassion or sympathy for the suffering of other people. The paper also acknowledges that women