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Quote #7
Tell [George] I was given back everything he took away and more. Oh, no, oh, God, no, there was something else besides the house and the man and the children. Oh, surely, they were not all? What was it? Something not given back. . . (42).
Intriguing—what might that something have been that George took away from her?
Quote #8
Since the day the wedding cake was not cut, but thrown out and wasted. The whole bottom dropped out of the world, and there she was blind and sweating with nothing under her feet and the walls falling away (49).
At the end of the story, Granny similarly remarks that "there was no bottom to death" and that "she couldn't come to the end of it." In that way, the story suggests that being abandoned and being jilted are a lot alike in the sense that both leave a person feeling utterly disoriented and unstable.
Quote #9
He had cursed like a sailor's parrot and said, "I'll kill him for you." Don't lay a hand on him, for my sake leave something to God (49).
Who do you think is the "he" referred to here (hint: some readers have suggested that it's John, Granny's future husband. If it is, why is this made ambiguous)?