Question

What does the name Weatherall have to do with Granny's nature (or her life story)? What other traits or qualities do you find in her?

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Granny Weatherall is a character in the short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". She is an eighty-year-old woman who is about to die. Granny's disorganized thoughts are mostly memories of everything she has gone through in life, especially being abandoned by the first man she ever loved.

Granny's name is Weatherall, which carries plenty of meaning. To weather something means to go through it and survive. The verb "to weather" is usually employed in connection with difficult times. Granny has indeed weathered it all. She raised her children on her own, after her husband passed way. She went through diseases, heartbreaks, hardships, and humiliation. But Granny's endurance, along with other qualities, helped her through. She is proud, strong-willed, determined, tenacious. Giving up is not an option for Granny.