Katherine Anne Porter

Kaya 2 I. Introduction Katherine Anne Porter was born in 1890 and she was one of the most influential writers of American Literature in the 20th century. As a journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist, she won lots of prizes including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Porter had a southern and wealthy family and her origins and conditions of life can be easily found in her literary works and her works deal with dark themes such as betrayal, death and

Katherine Anne Porter got her inspiration for most of her stories from her own life. She had TB at a time in her life, while she had it she got inspired to write a couple short stories. Katherine went to Mexico for a couple years and got material for some of her earlier works. Katherine had a rough childhood, but she took what she went through and put it into stories. Katherine Anne Porter comes down with tuberculosis. When it first got diagnosed she was sent to a sick house for the poor and she

Seay English III Honors February 19, 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Here is a woman who put things straight through the will of God. Katherine Anne Porter did it all, and chose perfection of life and of work. She worked as a critic, a singer, an actress, and most importantly of all a writer. Through numerous marriages, divorces, deaths, and personal crises, Porter established herself as accomplished author. Porter’s collection of works includes: short

Stream of Consciousness in Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," Katherine Anne Porter applies the rhetorical technique stream of consciousness to guide her audience through the last sixty years of a leathery, bitter woman jilted in life, and finally in death. The seemingly aimless and casual technique, similar to a human's thought pattern, effectively develops the exposition, conflict, and denouement. By using the stream of consciousness

Mrs. Whipple and Her Son in Katherine Porter's He In the story "He" by Katherine Porter, the main character Mrs. Whipple is often seen as a cruel, neglectful mother who mistreats her son, and there is ample evidence to support this view. But there is another away to look at Mrs. Whipple: she can also be perceived as a pitiful mother being forced to raise a retarded child that is totally incapable of returning her love. After closer inspection, however, it becomes evident that Mrs. Whipple

times’” (Porter, 81). No one around her grasps the intellect behind her thoughts; it is as if she is stuck in her own head. Porter’s use of dialogue aids her usage of the stream of consciousness technique. Many times granny will think she is saying something aloud, but she is not, “She thought she spoke up loudly but no one answered” (Porter, 83). This emphasizes the importance of reality vs thought; what is really going on vs what is going on in Granny’s head. Another style technique Porter uses is

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter “Jilting,” refers to when the bride is abandoned at the altar during the wedding ceremony. In the literary fiction, “ The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” Ellen (the main character) is faced with several unfortunate surprises in her lifetime: she was abandoned at the altar by the love of her life George; she lost one of her children, Hapsy, at childbirth; her husband (John) died at a young age. Despite all these as her name “Weatherall” suggests

The story, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter, was about a sick elderly woman recalling occasion from her life before she dies. Granny Weatherall is the main character of the story who is about eighty years old and is on her deathbed. She remembrances events from her life such as how she was jilted at the alter and how her husband dies young. George was the man who left Granny alone at the altar. John her husband died young, leaving her with many children to care for. Cornelia

responsibility while they transition from childhood to adulthood. An example of this can be found in the short story, The Grave, written by Katherine Anne Porter. In this short story two young kids, a brother and sister, go out exploring in a graveyard. “...propped their twenty two Winchester rifles carefully against the rail fence, climbed over and explored among the graves.”(Porter 2) The symbolism is the two kids climbing over the fence. The fence acts as the barrier between the two worlds of childhood and

hanged himself from a tree after betraying Jesus Christ and giving him a kiss. The tree in which Judas hanged himself is known as “Judas Tree,” mainly found in Southern Europe and Western Asia. In the short story “Flowering Judas” written by Katherine Anne Porter the title is related to this religious event of betrayal, murder, and denial. The two main characters in this short story are Braggioni and Laura. Braggioni is a cruel, powerful leader of Marxist revolutionaries in and around Mexico City. Laura