“Are all ends of life so sad?”(Marie of Romania). The end of a life is usually tragic and depressing. The journey that Granny Weatherall has to her death however, is not so sad. She is reminiscing and reliving parts of her life before she goes. She is with her doctor and daughter and is comfortable. The death she is experiencing is not painful; she just slips away into her fate. She is lost in her experience of life and will not stop thinking about her life. She went through many experiences and now was her time to be away from all of the troubles of life. This makes the reader wonder if her death was sad. The reader thinks of it more as a celebration. In the text “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” the diction conveys the fragments of experience, …show more content…
The switching in perspective is definitely evident in this story. The diction is a part of the shifting between stories because it differentiates them. The diction is used to help the reader understand the thoughts of Granny Weatherall, and to let them into her thoughts. “While she was rummaging around she found death in her mind and it felt clammy and unfamiliar”(836). These are thoughts of Granny and how she is experiencing her death. The reader is getting a look into what she is thinking and how she is processing her death. She knows that her death is near, which helps the reader knows this by the diction used to tell her emotions and feeling toward her fate.She knows all these thoughts and feelings; the words that are used she is able to let the reader know that she is feeling uncertain and apprehensive about her death. Without the diction used the reader would not know for sure how she felt. The diction is imperative to the reader to sympathies, and to fully understand the character. One of the most important moments of switching perspectives is at the last part of the story. Granny weather all switches from her thought and flashbacks to real life events: “I’ll never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light”(843). These moments of her death express how she is shifting from the thoughts of being left at the altar and how that is unforgivable and then those thoughts are cut off because it is her time to go. These words used “blew out the light”, is figurative but it is the abrupt shift from her thoughts to her death and lets the reader think and process that she just switched for the last