American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1435 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Katherine Anne Porter and Kay Boyle
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The idea
Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" follows an old woman's dying consciousness back to the wedding day she was abandoned on. Boyle's "The White Horses of Vienna" sets a doctor's household against the politics arriving in Austria in the nineteen thirties.
In practice
A deathbed memory; a household and a politics.
Where people slip
Both stories work through a limited consciousness.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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