Part one of term paper
Voices and visions, imagined and real, mingle and merge throughout Katherine Porter’s short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” as this hardy woman, one who has weathered so much, lives out her final moments. It is better to read the story and then watch the film because you are able to see the atmosphere the writer created turn ...

Part two of term paper
... to start the story differently. In the beginning of the movie, Granny Weatherall makes a white cake. In the story, it mentions a “white veil and . . . the white cake” that she has set out some 60 years later for her wedding to George that never took place. According to the video, she made the cake just because she wanted to. Another thing different is that the story starts out with Granny Weatherall lying in bed with Doctor Harry examining her. The movie, on the other hand, starts out wit ...