she was rummaging around she found death in her mind and it felt clammy and unfamiliar. She had spent so much time preparing for death there was no need for bringing it up again." In a semi-conscious state the feisty and irritable Granny reviews her life by remembering the important happenings, disappointments, crises, achievements, and feelings.The author uses a style of stream-of-consciousness which renders the thoughts, memories, and associations of Grannys mind. This technique is especially well-suited to the story because it reveals Grannys alternating confused and clear thoughts during her final moments as she moves from lucid consciousness to confused semiconsciousness..He just left five minutes ago. That was this morning, Mother. Its night now. The memories, thoughts, feelings, and images that strike Granny's mind in the present when they happened in the past are her most significant experiences. Granny Weatherall is jilted when the final sign she's been waiting for from Jesus never appears. "For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house . . . She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light." The light, which she blows out represents her life and as she descends into the darkness of death.These stories have the power to stimulate profound feelings and an intellectual understanding of life and death...
