In the short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," by Katherine Porter, Granny is at her deathbed. Even though she is watched over by many people, a doctor and her family included, the one person that has haunted her dreams for sixty years is not there. She has been jilted again, though this time it was not by a mortal like herself, but rather a supernatural being. Granny was jilted by God. "God, give a sign! For the second time there was no sign" (400). She was waiting for a sign that she would see her George again, but it did not come.

Granny's second jilting is dissimilar to her first jilting because when she was jilted by George, she had God to fall back on; he was her safety net. But being jilted by God was far worse because it meant that she had nothing to fall back...