Staying to the Storm Katherine Anne Porter, a native Texan, wrote "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Grandma is examined by the doctor. She denies being ill but feels her bones are floating. Grandma remembers the past but sometimes confuses it with the present as she vacillates in and out of reality and consciousness. The hard work of life reminds her of the letters in the attic that she doesn't want her children to find and that she has gone to great lengths to keep the house in order. She had prepared for death in her sixties and then "gotten over it" after becoming ill and recovering. Cornelia's attentions make Granny feel old, but her other children, Jimmy and Lydia, still ask her for advice, reminding Granny to raise the children. Grandma Even when Grandma thought she was dying at sixty, Grandma overcame her illness because she resisted. Endurance is a means to persevere through adversity. Grandma remembers going to women who had babies and sitting with animals and sick people and almost never losing one. Grandma was not self-centered but was committed to helping others overcome their problems. Mentoring a person experiencing adversity is an opportunity to help them, but also an opportunity to take advantage of a personal adversity and persevere. Joseph Wiesenfarth states that his grandmother's children are his consolation for the pain he has suffered in his life (“Internal Opposition” 106). Cornelia's attentiveness and Lydia and Jimmy's haste to be at their dying mother's bedside indicate not children who consoled their mother, but a mother who consoled her children by overcoming adversity for the sake of their future. Focusing on the future is a means of perseverance because Granny Weatherall has overcome it all, facing more than her fair share of life adversities. The oldest adversity that Grandma remembers is George's dismissal. Joseph Wiesenfarth declares that the dismissal is the "central fact of his life" ("Internal Opposition" 107). Anyone would have gotten hurt if it had been left at the altar and would have thought about it over the years. Grandma wants to forget the rejection because she is self-disciplined and does not want to feel sorry for herself. The internal quality of self-discipline is a means to persevere through adversity. Grandma claims to be on intimate terms with "some favorite saints" and mentions St. Michael. Saint Michael is a warrior. Grandma considers herself a warrior and has fought and overcome her adversities. A fighting spirit is a means to persevere through adversity. Joseph Wiesenfarth insists that, after George's abandonment, the grandmother never risked loving again (“Internal Opposition” 108). This mistake implies that the grandmother did not have true love for John. The grandmother has not forgotten the pain of the dismissal and that painful memory serves to counteract and increase her love for John. Grandma wants to show the children to John, not George. Grandma remembers his youthful appearance and appearance when she remembers John, not George. Grandma knows true love because she has known true pain. Grandma's true love for John is what got her through life's hardships, and John is the groom she seeks