the jilting of granny weatherall

1.When the story opens, who is with Granny and what does this foreshadow?(by谌彦利专升本四班第七组

17号)

In 1918，she nearly died of Influenza. Funeral arrangements has been made and her obituary written. Doctor Harry was with her, and it means that she is so weak and she is too old to live any more.

2. What are the names of Granny’s children? (by谌彦利专升本四班第七组17号)

Cornelia, George, Lydia Jimmy and Hapsy (one of her children who may lives far away , or is dead.)

3. Which child was Granny’s favorite? Is she still alive? Did she ever exist? (by谌彦利专升本四班第七组17

号)

Hapsy is her favorite child. No, she isn’t alive, she is the last child of Granny, but she is the first child who leaves Granny, she is dead when she was born.

4. What does the title of the story refer to? What does Granny’s name symbolize?（by崔婷婷专升本四班第七组23号）

It indicates that the Granny has a misfortune life, Granny’s name symbolize that she has undergo many difficult things and she has faced them bravely.

5. When Granny recalls George, she thinks “Find him and be sure to tell him I forgot him”. What is ironic

Granny’s thought? How did George really affect her life?（by崔婷婷专升本四班第七组23号）

The Granny can’t forget the thing that George abandoned him. The ironic is what she said is completely different with what she thinks. In her life, she never forget the disgrace and pain until she died.

6．What does Granny mean when she thinks, “That was hell, she knew hell when she saw it”? How does she feel about heaven? （by崔婷婷专升本四班第七组23号）

She means she was cheated. As she had prayed many years, but the heaven is different from what she think.

She feels upset and disappointed.

7. What is the significance of the light Granny blows out at the end of the story? （by 吴飞专升本四班第七组26号）

It symbolizes the moment of her death.

8. The end of the story suggests Granny is jilted again. Who jilts her this time? （by 吴飞专升本四班第七组26

号）

The God jilts her.

9. How does Granny feel at this moment of revelation? （by 吴飞专升本四班第七组26号）

She was a little fear about the coming death, because this time death may be early. And she was a little suspicious of the god.

10. What is the point of view in the story? （by殷新晨专升本四班第七组20号）

It is the first person narrative. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is told by her, but is her reminiscing her entire l ife just before she dies. Granny Weatherall is having flashbacks, which represent her past life leading to a new i nfinite one.

11. What are the themes, writing techniques of the story? （by殷新晨专升本四班第七组20号）

There are two themes. The first is self-pity, the second theme is the acceptance of her death. The story is write n in stream-of-consciousness narrative.

12. Who is Hapsy in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall? （by殷新晨专升本四班第七组20号）

She is the youngest daughter of Granny Weatherall. Someone thinks that Hapsy is just imagined by Granny, H apsy is a daughter that Granny wants to have with George.

13. What is the setting in the jilting of granny weatherall?（by李阳专升本四班第七组16号）

.The setting for' The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is the bedroom where Granny Weatherall is dying, though most of the action occurs in Granny's head. Told as stream-of-consciousness monologue, it is the story of the last day in the eighty-year-old woman's life.

14. Who are the characters in the jilting of granny weatherall? （by李阳专升本四班第七组16号）

Granny Weatherall , George, John, George, Jim, Cornelia, Haspy ,God

15. Who is the protagonist in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall? （by李阳专升本四班第七组16号）

Granny Weatherall is the protagonist in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall?

16. What is the tone of the Jilting of Granny Weatherall? （by李阳专升本四班第七组16号）

The tone is irony and suspicious attitude toward religion.

17. Who wrote "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"? (by 吴飞专升本死四班第七组26号）

Katherine Ann Porter