Artist's Statement: The story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" has an expressionistic and surreal quality I found intriguing. This is why I incorporated work from aritsts such as Salvador Dali and Edvard Munch into my painting of the story. I chose the dark purple and blue tones for the pitiful corpse-like figure of Granny Weatherall who is covering her face in sorrow. The yellow and red hues represent her infuriating anger she is still holding onto. The yellows and reds are tainted with streaks of black as a metaphor of her pain. The droopy clocks and backward writing are symbols of her deteriorating mind which is shown in the story by the way her mind goes in and out of reality.
        Brenda Perry-Huerta, Introduction to Literature, spring 1999
 
 

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