The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Porter is a classic study in “stream of consciousness." The literary term refers to events not in a chronological or linear manner, but the way the character thinks of things through their inner thoughts. This is often used in works where characters are either dying, mentally ill, or under great sense where their thoughts jump from one idea to the next without pattern or motive, in this case Granny Weatherall is that person. Ellen Weatherall is fiery, used to having her way, and unwilling to be treated like the sick old woman she is, for a grandmother who has "weathered it all." She is dying and is going through distant memories that she had. She is being bounced around her memories as her
