As she lies on her deathbed, Ellen "Granny" Weatherall reflects on her life. She is a woman around eighty who has faced many challenges.
She remembers her daughter Lidia coming to her for parenting advice and her son Jimmy asking her for business advice. She thinks of her late husband, John, and how she would like to point to their children and tell him that she has done a good job of raising them on...
As she lies on her deathbed, Ellen "Granny" Weatherall reflects on her life. She is a woman around eighty who has faced many challenges.
She remembers her daughter Lidia coming to her for parenting advice and her son Jimmy asking her for business advice. She thinks of her late husband, John, and how she would like to point to their children and tell him that she has done a good job of raising them on her own. Granny Weatherall calls to mind the endless sewing and cooking she did for her family and how she took on the farm chores after John's death. She recollects memories of sick people that she nursed as well as her own serious illnesses. A particularly painful memory for her is that of the disappointment of being jilted on her wedding day by a man named George. She also thinks of her daughter Hapsy who has died.
What Katherine Anne Porter meant in naming her "Weatherall" is that she is an aged woman who has faced life's challenges head on and weathered all of them.
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