Exactly what happened to Ellen Weatherall sixty years earlier? What effects did this event have on her? What will be an ideal response?

Book: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Author: Katherine Anne Porter

Sixty years earlier Ellen, or the dying grandma, was supposed to marry a man named George but he left her on the day of their wedding. Out of spite for George she married John and started a family with him.

The effect was that sixty years later she refuses that she is dying and she is also very harsh with ther family.