The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall Point Of View

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One of the most important things in a story is the point of view. It allows the reader to have a better understanding of the story. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," by Katherine Anne Porter is a basically plotless story, it takes its shape from Granny's wandering contemplations, which goes back and forth in time. She challenges herself by writing a story set altogether in bed yet making a structure that follows the twists and turns of the protagonist’s thoughts. The narrator uses a structure kind of different to others and let the reader get an inner look of Granny’s thoughts to engage us the readers. Despite the fact that the real events of the story never stray past Granny Weatherall's bed, Granny's mind meanders all over the place, taking her and us to the greater part of the most important and dramatic events throughout her life. The story starts being told in third person. We learn Granny's rich, muddled life, which was brimming with both achievement and dissatisfaction. Granny is in her lasts moments of her life, and she is annoyed with all of her children being with her. She does not believe she is dying. She has that personality because she has been through a lot. She was left at the altar by her fiance John …show more content…

This story is told in third person (Limited Omniscient) but the way its structured can make us think that is told in first person. The narrator lets us go deep inside Granny's head that it seems that the story is narrated from her point of view. Although it is confusing it is what caughts most of the readers attention. This story has the narrator who tells everything Granny is doing by using third person pronouns-- “She thought she spoke up loudly, but no one answered,” “she lay down and drowsed”. It is hard to identify who is telling the story even more because instead of continuing chronologically, the narration dashes forward and backward from the present moment to years long

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