that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind” (page653). These gestures and whispers made Granny feel as though Cornelia had jilted her, too. In her most final moments, as she felt herself slipping into death, she could not find a sign of God, George, or John to welcome her. Not only was she jilted in life by the two most important people in it, but also in death and by the most important man-figure of all, God. “Granny lay staring at the point of light that was herself; her body was now only a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. God, give a sign!”(657). She had once again been left at the altar, but this time, the altar of death. In life and in death, Granny Weatherall has been jilted and therefore made strong, bitter, and fearful. One must wonder that, with these three characteristics in life, she must have something wonderful to look forward to in the afterlife. The greatest wrongdoing was that having been promised a Heaven, an eternal life, and Granny was once again left alone. ...
