求一篇关于美国作家Katherine Anne Poter的论文！急！！！

Question

要求是关于凯瑟琳·安·波特（Katherine Anne Poter）的人物背景、思想、写作特点、流派等，尽量全面的全英文论文，要大学水平的，500字左右。谢谢了！答的好我再加分！
最好结合她的《被遗弃的韦瑟罗尔奶奶》一书写，重点是评论而不是人物历史的堆叠，拜托各位了！！！

Answer 1

有介绍她的写作特点,还结合了那本书..
有点长,你需要自己删减修改..

Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" was written by Katherine Anne Porter and first published in 1930. The story is of a women named Granny Weatherall who is on her deathbed. As she is surrounded by friends and family she remembers the life she has lived. She describes being jilted many times in her life, first by her husband-to-be and finally by death. The story was eventually made into a movie directed by Randa Haines.

A major theme in the story is that of self-pity. As a result of Granny's wedding day jilting she feels sorry for herself throughout the rest of her life. She also has become suspicious of everyone. This is shown when the doctor is speaking to Cornelia in the beginning of the story, outside of Granny's room. Granny exclaims, "First off go away and don't whisper!" Granny was apparently under the impression that the two of them were speaking ill of her behind her back.

Another common theme in many of Katherine Anne Porter's stories, including "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", is that of death. Porter was captivated by death and dreamed of having a custom made wooden coffin after she saw a photograph taken at the funeral of one of her friends. After Porter and her nephew searched New York City; Katherine found an ad for a coffin maker in Montana and placed her order. The coffin arrived but was obviously too large for her and the large colorful flowers were not at all what she expected but regardless Katherine had her wooden coffin. Even after receiving her coffin she and her nephew discussed arrangements on several occasions. First she wanted to be buried in the wooden coffin wrapped in a linen bed sheet. Later she decided that she wanted to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in running water. Then she wanted her ashes buried next to her mother and by this time it seemed that the coffin was just a prop to amuse friends and reporters. These obsessions with her own death may be the reason why many of her writings have themes of death including "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". The main character Granny Weatherall is forced to evaluate how she feels about what her life has been as she lives her last day.

Granny Weatherall seems to thrive on disillusionment and despair. At first Granny couldn't accept the fact that her days were numbered. This is shown when the doctor is summoned and she says, "I won't see that boy again. He just left five minutes ago." She continues her denial later on when Cornelia calls on a priest to offer Granny her last rights. She refused to speak to the priest once he arrived. Katherine Anne Porter was also in denial about death and therefore took it fairly light heartedly and constantly changed the plans for her funeral.

During the story Granny asks some of her grandchildren to pick fruit form a nearby orchard. She insisted that none of the fruit be wasted. Granny said, "Don't let good things rot for want of using. You waste life when you waste good food. It's bitter to lose things." This symbolized how Granny had weathered all and knows what it is like to lose something and attempted to never waste or be wasted again.

Katherine Anne Porter was raised Catholic and her religious views as well as those specifically of the Catholic Church greatly affected her writing. Katherine Porter said herself "I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion." Many, such as William Lance, say that Granny represented Porter's puritanical fear of intimacy.

Even though Granny went to Holy Communion every week she really had no faith. She felt that God had deceived her. However, she had really deceived herself by attempting to live the perfect catholic life without faith. After being left at the altar by the love of her life Granny felt that she could no longer trust God. This distrust paralleled the life of Porter's own Grandmother who died just shortly before the story was written. As Granny is dying she sees a cart that is being pushed by God. God does not extend his hand to her because she does not extend her hand to him. So in reality she is once again being jilted, this time by herself and at the same time by God and her religion. "There is a priest in the house, but no bridegroom" in this second jilting the bridegroom is thought to represent Jesus of Matthew 25:1-13. In Matthew 25, 10 women were waiting for Jesus but 5 were not ready and therefore missed him.

The story is written with the rhetorical technique stream of consciousness . stream of consciousness is the writing style most similar to the pattern of human thought. Porter understands this relationship and uses the technique to tell the reader the story of Granny Weatherall's life. By using this technique Porter is able to inform the reader of Granny's background as well as allow the reader to form their own conclusions about the references of the deaths of her husband John, and her daughter Hapsy. stream of consciousness also keeps the reader interested and seems to move from one line to the next effortlessly, eliminating the transitions used in ordinary prose. Another technique, which can be noted throughout the story, that contributes to these things is flashback.

The sentence structure and diction support the stream of consciousness writing. The sentences in are long and continuous with few pauses and little punctuation. The diction is colloquial. When Granny is conversing with people the language is informal. For example, Granny says to the doctor, "Leave a well woman alone I'll call you when I want you...." As Granny gets deeper and deeper into thought she starts to speak childishly.

Katherine Anne Porter includes images of light and dark in the story. Thoughts from Granny's past are light: " But he had not come... what does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn't come?" Her thoughts of the present are dark: "For 60 years she prayed against remembering him and against loosing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky could from hell" The light which she blew out at the end of the story represents her life and she will now descend into the blackness of death. Porter also uses physical things such as fog to represent non-material things such as betrayal.

The tone is solemn and bitter. The tone aids the reader in feeling pity for Granny. The following is an example of her bitterness; "Wait wait Cornelia till your own children whisper behind your back!"

One of the messages that the story gives the reader is "carpe diem" or seize the day. This is common in many of Porter's writings which all encompasses her personal ideas regarding death and dying, mourning, loss and loneliness, injustice and rejection.

In the story Porter uses simile and metaphor: "The pillow rose and floated under her, pleasant as a hammock in a light wind"

Katherine Porter explores the lives of her characters and gives the reader a strong sense of the characters' personal guilt, isolation, and sadness. This story allows the reader to reflect on the positive things in their own life, by showing Granny's regret for not taking advantage of the life she lived.

Answer 2

Katherine Ann Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, describes the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly woman. As Granny Weatherall’s life literally “flashes” before her eyes, the importance of the title of the story becomes obvious. Granny Weatherall has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every love relationship of her life. Her past lover George, husband John, daughter Cornelia, and God each did an injustice to Granny Weatherall. Granny faces her last moments of life with a mixture of strength, bitterness, and fear. Granny gained her strength from the people that she felt jilted by. George stood Granny up at the altar and it is never stated that she heard from him again. The pain forced Granny to be strong.

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," there are two themes. The first is self-pity. The second theme is the acceptance of her death. Both deal with the way people perceive their deaths and mortality in general. Granny Weatherall's behavior is Porter's tool for making these themes visible to the reader. The theme of self-pity is obvious and thoroughly explored early on. As a young lady, Granny Weatherall was left at the altar on her wedding day. As a result, the pathetic woman feels sorry for herself for the rest of her life. She becomes a bitter old woman who is suspicious of everyone around her. This point is shown early in the story when the do Granny Weatherall, the main character in Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, is an 80-year-old elderly woman who is at the doorstep of death. There is a sense of disillusionment with Granny that leads readers to develop their own interpretation of her relationship with Cornelia, her daughter As the narrator, Granny unknowingly would paint the picture of Cornelia as nuisance and bothersome. In fact, the reader can rationalize that it is just Cornelia's concern for an ailing mother that creates the situation of her seemingly being there all the time.

Granny is having mental flashbacks as death approaches like "a fog rose over the valley" (1296). Granny recalls events throughout her life, from being left at the altar on her wedding day, to losing a child, to coming to grips with her own death as the story reaches a close. All of these recollections and the realization of her death bring together the great ironies of the story, ironies which cause not one but two jiltings for Granny. As you read the story, the first irony becomes apparent on her deathbed, the memory of a love lost which has been suppressed for 60 years resurfaces. It is magnified in such a way showing that though she had tried to forget George.

The setting for "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is the bedroom where Granny Weatherall is dying, though most of the action occurs in Granny's head. Told as a stream-of-consciousness monologue, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is the story of the last day in the eighty-year-old woman's life. In her final hours with her surviving children around her bed, Granny Weatherall reconsiders her life and ponders her impending death. Almost against her will, her thoughts return to an incident that occurred more than sixty years earlier: She was left standing alone at the altar when her fiancé George jilted her.

A portrait of an eighty-year-old woman on her deathbed,' 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is an exploration of the human mind as it struggles to come to terms with loss and mortality. Porter offers no clear resolution to these fundamental issues, but instead interweaves themes of betrayal, religion, death, and memory in a moving and poetic character study. The titles of both the story and the anthology {Flowering Judas} in which it first appeared suggest the idea of betrayal, a central theme underlying many of Porter's stories. Judas was the disciple who betrayed Christ with a kiss. At the heart of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" are Granny's memories of her betrayal by George, the...

One of the most striking stylistic aspects of 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is its unusual narrative perspective. Though the story is written in the third person, its narrative point of view is extremely close to that of the central character, Granny Weatherall. The story is told through stream-of-consciousness. Granny's thoughts are presented in a spontaneous fashion, as if readers had access to her. Jilting means you have been kept from something that was meant to be yours. Most often used in terms that one is jilted at the alter (or their prospective spouse doesn't show up to get married) Granny Weatherall is jilted at the alter then again when she doesn't see a sign from God when she is dying-kind of like she was waiting for God to come get her and he doesn't-so is jilted twice.

On her death bed, surrounded by her children, doctor and priest, a memory of 60 years ago, the day she was jilted by her husband-to-be, could no longer be repressed by Granny Weatherall- "the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head . . . ." Voices and visions, imagined and real, mingle and merge throughout the story as this hardy woman, one who has weathered so much, lives out her final moments.

Ironically, Granny Weatherall is jilted for a second time when the final sign she's been waiting for from Jesus never appears. "For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house . . . She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light."