Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Assignment #4 Criticism

Psychological criticism of the Katherine Anne Porter's short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". for me this is just an interesting and perfect story where I can apply the Psychological Criticism, in part because of the very detail narration of the Granny Weatherall personality facts. In the Psychological Criticism we can find three different types to approach, in this specific case of Porter's story I could start and focus in the second approach of the psychological criticism which involves the psychological study of a of a particular artist. Most modern literature biographers employ psychology to understand their subject's motivation and behavior. Based on this theory is easy to understand the last moments or perhaps the whole life of Granny Weatherall. Inn my mind is a big question about why Granny Weatherall was focused even obsessed with Hapsy???????, well I really think that inside of Granny's weatherall subconsciousness was some kind of gilt about Hapsy's die. but is even more the yhings that the author tell about Granny Weatherall match in part perfectly with what we call ion the Psychological field as Dysthymia that in anther words means the unhappiness of the soul in her case due to the events happend through her life. There is also a shade of mental conditions in Granny's personality such as delucions and even temporarily dementia. well I will close my critics just saying that as literature masterpices help or inspire to the father of the psychology, also, now, psychology criticism is a very strong tool to analize literature.... all this is amazing.

1 comment:

  1. I would like to say that I enjoy your little statement about how may have some guilt over the death of Hapsy.I also like how you used psychological terms in your pos to describe granny's state of mind.

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