STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN WEATHERALL
In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" the reader is transported across sixty years of life and death through the eyes of an old woman. However, below the surface of a seemingly simple story-line, there is a complexity and subjectivity that is revealed to, and interpreted by the reader as a result of the stream-of-consciousness technique. This technique, which is quite like the pattern of our own conscious thought, allows the reader the benefit of not only seeing the events of Weatherall’s life, but seeing the emotional perception and psychological consequences of these events. ... When Weatherall is thinking back to lighting the lamps with her young children, we receive the line "they didnt have to be scared and hang on to mother any more.