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Granny Weatherall and Miss Emily Grierson The main characters in the stories “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” and “A Rose for Emily” have several important similarities. Although the plots, settings, and themes are different, Granny Weath ....

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.... denial. Granny Weatherall refuses the fact that she is dying and fights it with many excuses and anger. Even as she dies at the end, Granny is still fighting the fact that she is dying and never actually accepts her death. Miss Emily denies that her father died, and then refuses Homer Baron’s rejection by killing him and keeping his body. Emily then withers away in her denial, waiting for her death. Each woman is alone for a long period in her life. Granny Weatherall is left to raise her family and her ranch with no help. She is made stronger by all of her solitary hard work. Miss Emily’s father dies and she is left in the old house with ....