南开大学_外国语学院_美国文学课件The_Jilting_of_Granny_____Weatherall.pptVIP

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Anne Porter (15 May 1890 – 18 September 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She is known for her penetrating insight; her works deal with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. The setting for The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is the bedroom where Granny Weatherall is dying, though most of the action occurs in Grannys head. Told as a stream-of-consciousness monologue, it is the story of the last day in the eighty-year-old womans life. In her