Free writing journal - Essay Example

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall was not just a story about an old woman’s death. It gave us a glimpse of what we may experience when we are near death. More than death, it told us the story of life. Granny led us to the significant events of her life. Her experiences told us that her life is not all sweet. It just justified why she acted that way with her children or why she thought the things she thought about in her death. Granny was a heartbroken woman and it was clearly shown in the story.

Her denial about her heartbreak became her strength and her weakness. It made her strong enough to care for herself and her children through the years. But it also made her weak since it blinded her from the way she treated her children. She never got past her heartbreak and she was stuck in the denial stage. Until the end, her very death, she was still in denial of her past and her present state.Porter’s wrote The Jilting of Granny Weatherall the same way as a degenerating mind of an old woman.

At first, everything was coherent enough that you can tell who was speaking and what the characters were doing. As the story nears its end, same as how Granny neared her end, the narration became a jumble. It was like a mess. You cannot easily distinguish who was saying what. This was the same as Granny’s mind. It was like a clutter of thoughts. She was thinking about something but she cannot say it any longer. Her children were hearing mumbles but she was hearing herself clearly. It was effective in a way that Porter emphasized how the thoughts of a dying person can be multi-linear.

It has many lines crisscrossing together.It was actually a sad story. It made me think of how my death would be. It seems heartbreaking that death is that lonely. That in death there is isolation. The story was an eye-opener. If we live our lives in denial, there is a possibility that we may die in denial of our own death. This would make the dying person and the people around her hold on to her, as the denial is strong to even accept the death that is happening with their own eyes.