Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.
Old Age Quotes
"That's no way to speak to a woman nearly eighty years old just because she's down. I'd have you respect your elders, young man" (3).
Abandonment Quotes
The pillow rose about her shoulders and pressed against her heart and the memory was being squeezed out of it: oh, push down the pillow, somebody: it would smother her if she tried to hold it. Such...
Mortality Quotes
While [Granny] was rummaging around she found death in her mind and it felt clammy and unfamiliar (18).
Women and Femininity Quotes
Doctor Harry spread a warm paw like a cushion on her forehead where the forked green vein danced and made her eyelids twitch. "Now, now, be a good girl, and we'll have you up in no time.""That's no...