The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

I felt like the story was very well written in a sense that it grabbed my attention from the very beginning. There was no sort of back story or lead in, you just jumped into the mindset of Granny Weatherall. I enjoyed the way that Granny's mindset continued to move rapidly from one stream of thought to the next. The story starts off with a Doctor Harry who is examining Granny. The reader gets a sense in the first few sentences that this woman is opinionated and probably pretty old. She is persistent in the fact that she thinks she is perfectly healthy and that the doctor is wasting his time. The doctor on the other hand thinks that this could be Granny's last day. After he leaves, Granny begins to think of many of the important things that have happened to her throughout her life.

The way that Katherine Anne Porter jumped between what was happening, the dialog, and the flashbacks of Granny Weatherall is what made this story so enthralling. The reader finds out about Granny's past and what has made her so strong until this point. It truly is well written and interesting. The best part of the story is the last page or so. Granny has finally come to grip the fact that these people are there because she is dying. She starts panicking about things she hasn't accomplished, things that the children should keep, people she hasn't seen. In the end she finally calms down and accepts death. The last sentence when Porter writes about Granny blowing out the light leaves such a lasting impression. This story is by far my favorite that we've read so far.