Webster's dictionary described the word 'jilt' as the act of breaking with a lover who does not want to end the relation ship in a callously light-headed way. Jilting took ona double meaning in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter with Granny's strength and weaknesses revealed by her reactions to her being left at the altar and her slow death sixty years later. The most obvious conflict of 'The Jilting of Granny …
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…therall lived long and weathered all until the end, when for the second time in her life there was no sign given by God. Again there was no bridegroom and the priest was there in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because the grief of being jilted twice, first by George,then by a hard life, wiped all the sorrow away, when her dignified and triumphant life cam e to an end.