Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
In this story at the end it says that granny weatherall blows out the light after she sees no sign from God. When she is about to die she is looking for her other child. She doesn't find her so she asks God for a sign, nothing happened so she think she was jilted so instead of God jilting her granny, "blows out the light", meaning she rejects going to heaven and goes into darkness, so she can jilt God. Since she got jilted when she was going to get married she didn't want to get jilted again.
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I agree with you Karen. The blwing out candle was granny giving up on life. She had hope at the last minute, but there was no sign from God, so she might as well think there's nothing worth living for anymore. She gave up, she loved God and was so diappointed that she didn't care anymore.
ReplyDeleteYea I agree with both of you. She knew she was dying already and she knew that nobody really cared seeing as though she had to act the way she did for attention. So when she goes to God for help, he doesn't give a sign so she just gave up.
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