Jilting in William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Katherine Anne Porte

Jilting in William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and Katherine Anne Porters The Jilting of nanna Weatherall Websters vocabulary defines the word jilt as the act of rejecting a lover. So to be deserted by another, left at the altar, or unwanted by another, is to be jilted. In William Faulkners A Rose for Emily and in The Jilting of granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter, Emily and Granny Weatherall through forth the course of their lives experience jilting several times. In turn, this rejection places a significant emphasis on both of their lives. After Emilys breed passes away in A Rose for Emily, Emilys looker rejects her. The only man that her father must have approved of ran pop on her, leaving her all alone. It must have been unbearable for Emily, to bounteous the two most important tribe in her life inside such a short time of each other. Emilys father, Mr. Grierson send away all of the young men who had come to court her. They were not quite good enough for h is little girl. He shut her finish from society by standing in the front door clutching a horsewhip. He did not allow Emily to go into town to see how plurality lived their life. Nor did he allow her to meet people and make friends. Instead, Emilys father kept her in the house and isolated her from society. This isolation caused Emily to become disgustful to change. With no one to turn to in her time of need, Emily was forced into a period of isolation. Because her father had isolated her for the first thirty years of her life, creation secluded from the community was all she knew. The narrator (the town) points out, After her fathers death she went out very little after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. By iso... ...gain no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this melancholy wiped them all away. Oh, no theres nothing more vicious than thisIll never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light. This second jilting at death makes the first jilting by George more base and intensely powerful. The light, which she blows out, represents her life and she descends into the blackness of death, jilted again. Being rejected by a lover can have a major stupor on ones life as it did for Emily, in A Rose for Emily and as it did for Granny, in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. One must define it in their heart to forgive and forget and move on with their life. The jilting of Emily and Granny Weatherall shows how time changes and how it must be embraced, for better or for worse, because the past is no more.