Symbolism In The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

“Uncertainty of Control”

In “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” her name, weatherall, or seen as weathered by it all, shows that she has been through everything, especially through times of doubt oruncertainty. Granny Weatherall is a very controlling woman;however, she comes to realize there are many things that she cannot control. She also believes that she has lived a very happy life, however, when she is starting to die, she realizes that there are many things that she wishes she could change. Granny Weatherall is very uncertain of many things throughoutthe story. One of the main things she is uncertain aboutis whether or not she is dying. She tells the doctor to “get along and doctor your sick…leave a well womanalone” (203). In her mind, she is not going to die because she has not planned or it. She says she still has a ton of things to get done so it cannot be her time to pass away. However, death is something that she cannot control, just like George leaving her at the altar. As she is trying to get some rest, the memory of George comes back to her, “what does a women do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn’t care?...but a whirl of dark smoke
That was hell, she knew hell when she saw it. For sixty years she had prayed against