Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."

Jilt can have particularly negative consequences on an individual who is left, considering that the respective person comes to consider that he or she is actually to blame for the fact that his or her lover did not share his or her feelings. The effects of jilting are reflected by the behavior of individuals like Emily in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Granny Weatherall in Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." Even with the fact that the former decides to employ a more aggressive attitude in regard to her lover, the latter considers that it would be pointless for her to blame him and simply accepts her condition, even with the fact that she feels rejected by the world as a whole as she spends her last moments on earth.

Even with the fact...
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