Last Days of Granny Weatherall

Granny Weatherall paints a portrait of a strong, persistent, old fashion woman. Also according to the story and meaning of her last name, “Weatherall,” signifies the meaning that she has weathered all kinds of difficulties and without a single thought of ever giving up the fight. She awards herself of being a good mother and wife, as well as a good person. She is a elderly grandmother with three children, the fourth perhaps died at birth, and two loves and notches in her belt in her life. Her first love, George, left her alone at the altar, jilted for first time. She has been trying to forget about him since but has been unsuccessful. She mentions she would love to let him know she forgotten about him and she lived a happy life. Her husband and seeing love, the live of her life dies twenty years before her never getting ti see his kids all grown up. She had been awaiting death ever since his but never once gave up on life or was stopped, she always determinedly kept giving living life to the fullest as a housewife and mom, as well as a midwife and nurse in order to make money and survive. This was a great example of a near-death experience. The entire story gives me an idea of how that may be like. Granny’s experience was her whole life was flashing through and every little emotion and behavior brought her back to relived another memory in her life. She seemed like she made peace with allot of things. She is proud of all that she had accomplished and how she never gave up even when faced to hold up a family alone she did it with loving pride and virtue. These are the things that was flashing through her head. She does hold a larger amount of bitterness and remorse throughout this near-death experience, in other words the last moments towards death. She felt bitterness towards her first live George who left her at the altar but she felt suffocated with him was well. Or maybe that moment she fell to the ground, in the priest’s arms who wanted to kill him for what he did but she said not to, realizing it herself he had left her alone. Bitter for her husband dying so young and never getting to see how all her children turned out. Bitter but yet remorseful of her daughter Cornelia she treats her so bad sometimes and feels shame as Cornelia loves her waiting hand and foot for her. Bitter to the young doctor that she thinks doesn’t know anything because he is such a young man. The experience of being near-death and floating from inside her mind to being luminescence and seeing everything like a fly on the wall, was a peculiar perspective but it gave a detailed insightfulness , almost like a third dimension, to this interesting story. She jumped from the omniscient narrator to first person narrator action. I think she does a wonderful experience illustrating this story using a dramatic moment in Granny’s life the last moments of her life to fit in a nutshell her whole life’s story. Re: Last Days of Granny Weatherall by Travis Bruce - Saturday, November 17, 2012, 12:18 AM Alissa, I enjoy your connection to the story this week and your analysis definitely cements your understanding. I enjoy how Porter realized Granny in a realistic and genuine way. While I see how Granny does seem bitter at the very end, I feel she is justified to hold such feelings. I think Granny feels resentment because she doesn't like being treated like a kid. Anyways, I enjoyed your analysis. Re: Last Days of Granny Weatherall by Yajaira Lopez - Saturday, November 17, 2012, 11:01 AM I like how you included and described the meaning of her last name. It made me understand more the person she was by learning about the meaning of her last name. Also I felt the same way about the experience of being near death. The experience made the story so much interesting to read. Re: Last Days of Granny Weatherall by Joanna Cardenas - Saturday, November 17, 2012, 05:20 PM I like how you mentioned that her last name, Weatherall, was something that signified Granny. Granny weathered through many difficulties that made her look like a strong woman but on the inside she was a wreck. Great job on your analysis. -Joanna Cardenas Re: Last Days of Granny Weatherall by Eduardo Valladolid - Saturday, November 17, 2012, 07:05 PM Yup! I agree with you. Throughout this whole story, I kept wondering if this is what being so near to death felt like. I found it to be quite beautiful to have all these images and memory come back to mind so vividly. It´d be nice to remember our best days rather than focus on the last days which aren´t very pleasant for anyone. Good job!