The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall and A Worn Path Essay -- Compare and

The short stories, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Catherine Anne Porter and A faded Path by Eudora Welty, have many similarities as well as differences. Both stories have a simple plot with a theme that is exemplary of their lives. These stories include great characterization, description of elements in the stories, and the point of view.Granny Weatherall is characterized as a very old lady who is extremely stubborn and bedridden. Granny Weatherall is a sickly old lady in denial. She believes that she is not sick although she is lying on her deathbed. Her life consisted of two men and her children with them. Granny Weatherall remembers her first love, John, leaving her at the altar. She later marries George who she has many children, one of which, passes away at a very young age...