Jilting of Granny Weatherall

EL HADJI M. NDIAYE ENGLISH 102 Katherine Ann Porter’s short film adaptation of The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is widely considered as being one of the greatest classics in short filmmaking. And the reputation is far from being undeserved. Granny, (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a matriarch who, on the last day of her life, summons up for evaluation the successes and failures of her long years. Even though she has “seen it all”, “weathered it all”, …

…been the same in that case. Maybe Katherine Ann Porter’s goal was to remind us that life was not always fair, that it could be in fact very cruel, even to the best amongst us. A happy ending to the story probably would have made it somewhat ordinary, when in fact it is not.That is why The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is both a literary classic and now a reference in short filmmaking.