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1、南开大学外国语学院美国文学课件TheJiltingofGrannyWeatherallStillwatersrundeep.流静水深流静水深,人静心深人静心深Wherethereislife,thereishope。有生命必有希望。有生命必有希望Katherine Anne Porter (15 May 1890 18 September 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. She is kn
2、own for her penetrating insight; her works deal with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil.The setting for The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is the bedroom where Granny Weatherall is dying, though most of the action occurs in Grannys head. Told as a stream-of-consciousness
3、monologue, it is the story of the last day in the eighty-year-old womans 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 si
4、xty years earlier: She was left standing alone at the altar when her fiance George jilted her. George left her at the wedding, with the cake and guests, and Granny never let go of the memory. This memory is what dominates her thoughts as she nears death. At the end of the story as she asks God for a
5、 sign and doesnt get one, she feels that now God has jilted her. She blows out the light, and her life and the story are over. Porter gradually reveals the details of the jilting through Granny Weatheralls fragmented recollections. In Granny Weatheralls semi-conscious state, the past mingles with th
6、e present and people and objects take on new forms and identities. stream of consciousness nIn literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes, either in a loose in
7、terior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions. Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is characterized by associative (and at times dissociative) leaps in syntax and punctuation that can make the prose difficult to follow, tracing a
8、 characters fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. nStream of consciousness and interior monologue are distinguished from dramatic monologue, where the speaker is addressing an audience or a third person, and is used chiefly in poetry or drama. In stream of consciousness, the speakers thought pr
9、ocesses are more often depicted as overheard in the mind (or addressed to oneself) and is primarily a fictional device. nThe term was first introduced to the field of literary studies from that of psychology by philosopher and psychologist William James, brother of the influential writer Henry James.Henry James (18431916)Major Works:nThe American (1877)nDaisy Miller (1879)nThe Portrait of a Lady (1881)nThe Turn of the Screw (1898)nThe Wing of the Dove (1902)nThe Ambassadors (1903)nThe Golden Bowl (1904)nThe Art of Fiction (1884)
