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    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Katherine Anne Porter 1929 108 Katherine Anne Porter’s story, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” was first published in transi- tion magazine in February, 1929. The story, con- ‘cerning a dying woman's memory of being left at ‘the altar on her wedding day and her current fear of being jilted in a similar manner by God, was subse- ‘quently collected in Porter's first published book, Flowering Judas. She has said that the character of Granny Weatherall was based on her own grand~ ‘mother and tha the story was the frst of many of her works to be inspired by her Texas roots. Porter's ‘often fragile health may have also influenced the story. In 1918, she nearly died of influenza; funeral arrangements had been made and her obituary writ- fen. In her autobiography, Porter stated that the ‘experience made her different from others: “had what the Christians call the ‘beatific vision,’ and the Greeks called the ‘happy day,” the happy vision just before death.” Such experience may have led her to ‘explore that moment of death in her fiction, a moment in which Granny Weatherall feels that her body is “a deeper mass of shadow in an endless

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