e to tell him I forgot him. I want him to know I had my husband… Better than I hoped for even. Tell him I was given back everything he took away and more.” It is obvious that Granny has not forgotten George. He preoccupies her thoughts and feelings and she has never been able to forgive him for the pain and humiliation that he caused her. Ellen had told her not to let her wounded vanity get the upper hand of her and that plenty of girls get jilted, so stand up to it. Granny had buried the memory for many years, but now it overwhelms her. “But he had not come…. What does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn’t come? For sixty years she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell….” Granny had buried the pain of George’s rejection only to have it surface all over again, just as she is waiting for her time to come. Granny Weatherall was jilted again when her time had come to pass into heaven. She laid waiting, expecting a sign from God that never appeared. Granny was looking for that sign of bright light from God to take her to heaven. Instead she was engulfed in an endless darkness that took her to hell. Because Granny was unable to let go of the past and forgive George for the pain he had caused her she did not receive the sign from God that she so hoped for. Granny was left in darkness. “For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away. Oh, no there’s nothing more cruel than thisI’ll never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light.” This second jilting at death makes the first jilting by George more moving an...
