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Type of paper: Research Paper
Subject area: English Literature
Academic level: College
Style: MLA
Size: 26.5 kB
Word count:
2739 words/10 pages
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Author: Cindy Villanueva
Date submitted: 2008-11-21 20:52:33
Rating/Votes count:
5.00 / 1
 
Tags: emily, book, industry, strategies, porter, weatherall, granny, pick, Porter, Emily Grierson, Alice Walker, Katherine Anne Porter, Granny Weatherall, Anne Porter, Granny, Granny Weathall, Ellen Weatherall
Exploration of Narrative Technique in
Katherine Anne Porter 's
``The Jilting of Granny Weatherall '
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Katherine Anne Porter wrote and published ``The Jilting of Granny
Weatherall ' in 1930 . This is a story of a grandmother who is dying .
While she is surrounded by her family most of the action of the story
takes place in her head . ``The Jilting of Granny Weatherall "skillfully written and culturally important story about growing and
being old (Cline 170 . The story centers around the inner monologue of
Granny Weathall as she remembers the times and tribulations of her life .
The majority of which are incidents in which she feels ``jilted .
With each subsequent ``jilt ' Granny Weatherall becomes more jaded and
paranoid . At the end of her life her only concern is if she will be
jilted by God too . The story was eventually made into a movie directed
by Randa Haines . The development of the rising action , falling action ,
resolution and theme , in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall " can be
attributed to the stream of consciousness rhetoric technique employed by
Katherine Porter .
Stream of consciousness writing mirrors the human thinking pattern .
Stream of consciousness writing is characterized by the use long , run on
sentences , changing of tense , informal conversation , and viewpoint .
Porter 's writing has very little punctuation and what is present is used
to stop and start thoughts not sentences "All this is spewed out in a
stream of choppy clauses , sentence fragments , and isolated words that
reflect Granny 's own mental processes . Time too is fragmented , the
present often sliding into the past , or the past (Grider 153 . Porter
utilizes this technique to allow the reader to understand and almost
interact almost directly with the mind of Granny Weatherall . Through
this technique "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall " Porter first
attempts to portray the elder wise woman (Porter 132 . Porter is able
to inform the reader many things no one else but Granny Weatherall has
experienced or felt . The whole of the story takes place within Granny
Weatherall and "the real setting was in Granny Weatherall 's mind (Tanner 19 .
The reader is first introduced to Granny Weatherall when she is being
fussed over by Doctor Harry . The reader soon realizes this will be the
last day of her . It is clear a few sentences into the story that Porter
will comments both of life , death , and coming to terms with each .
Granny Weatherall can not fathom that her life is going to be over and
refuses to give in to death . She believes she is not sick and certainly
not in need of a doctor and comments "get along and doctor your sick '
and ``Leave a well woman alone " Porter makes good use of this interior
stream of consciousness and especially useful in representing the mind
of not just an old woman whose memory fades in and out . It also
represented the desperation of an individual that is facing her own
death .
The rising action...
 

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