"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is a short story written by the American writer Katherine Anne Porter.
[1] It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative detailing the thoughts of a woman attempting to tie up loose ends as she lies on her deathbed.
[2] Septuagenarian Granny Weatherall lies in bed, attended to by Dr. Harry and her grown daughter Cornelia.
As she "rummages around her mind," she senses death lurking nearby, and she desires to stave it off until she can destroy a bundle of old letters from a former lover who jilted Granny Weatherall sixty years ago.
Father Connolly arrives to administer the last rites, but Granny feels she made her peace with God long ago and does not need the priest.