Webster's dictionary described the word 'jilt' as the act of breaking with a lover who does not
want to end the relation ship in a callously light-headed way. Jilting took ona double meaning in
'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter with Granny's strength and
weaknesses revealed by her reactions to her being left at the altar and her slow death sixty
years later.
The most obvious conflict of 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' was Granny struggling with
death. …
