Research Paper on:
Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall'

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WEATHERALL" Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., February 2001 Introduction Today in American history we are  a continent of movement, whether is in our cars or on the internet; it is easy to see how we remain a mobile population. As such, our relatives may  be in other parts of the country, but few are within an hours drive. Such was not the case a hundred, or even fifty years ago, but it is  the case for Granny Weatherall in our story. Her family has been called together, because it appears that Granny is no longer lucid. No on recognizes that Granny  is beginning "the process of moving," between the past that she has known, and the future that she perceives as darkness. Points of View Katherine Anne Porter, the author of  this 1930 story, uses light and darkness in opposite ways. We see that Grannys children - and Granny knows "all the children were older than their father" (Porter 178).  Are really "in the dark" about her current state of mind. The care-take daughter, Cornelia, has gotten used to dismissing Grannys spoken thoughts, because she has seen that  her mother does not always know the time of day. "He just left five minutes ago"; "That was this morning, Mother. Its night now" (Porter 177). The attending physician,  knows Granny as a feisty sort, and we know that Granny is controlling the show, when she tells him, "Get along and doctor your sick . . . . Leave  a well woman alone. Ill call you when I want you" (Porter 176). She has dismissed the doctor to be alone with her own thoughts. Is the physician "enlightened"