She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light.
Earlier in the story, it talked about fire; how it was moving away from Granny. Both this text and the previous mention of fire symbolize her death, like wind blowing out fire. Fire symbolizes life within Granny.
For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away.
This text illustrates Granny going to Hell. She believed her favorite saints will bring her to Heaven. All she received was a black void and expected a redo of her failed attempt of marriage with George. It was like her own personal Hell.
her body was now only a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. God, give a sign!
Unlike the first time, God gives no sign that she will live, but only a representation of what God did: nothing.
You’ll see Hapsy again.
According to this text, Hapsy presumably died early on, probably at childbirth because Granny always thinks of her when it comes to childbirth. Also, earlier she imagines her giving birth to a baby of her own, showing a sign of grief when it came to her not having the same opportunity Granny did.
So, my dear Lord, this is my death and I wasn’t even thinking about it. My children have come to see me die.
When all her children cam to see her on her bed, she realizes she's about to die. Cornelia noticed her mother was losing the ability to functions and called her family to see her one last time.
His hand had caught her under the breast, she had not fallen
This indicated that George left Granny on their wedding day. Also, this is the backstory between Granny and Father's relationship, because Father caught Granny.
Since the day the wedding cake was not cut, but thrown out and wasted.
This indicated that George left Granny on their wedding day. That's why Granny wants to see him, according to the earlier annotation.
She had her secret comfortable understanding with a few favorite saints who cleared a straight road to God for her.
Granny believes she will go to Heaven because all her favorite saints will save her and God saving her twenty years ago.
“Father just wants to speak to you.”He could speak as much as he pleased. It was like him to drop in and inquire about her soul as if it were a teething baby, and then stay on for a cup of tea and a round of cards and gossip.
Father Connolly often visits Granny, based on this text.
When this one was born it should be the last. The last.
Granny is referring to Hapsy, the child Granny always thinks of.
Her breath crowded down under her ribs and grew into a monstrous frightening shape with cutting edges; it bored up into her head, and the agony was unbelievable: Yes, John, get the Doctor now, no more talk, my time has come.
Granny is re-experiencing a birth with John. This is indicating the end for Granny, because studies show the individual's life flashes before their eyes before death.
Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George.
George is the man who left Granny. He is illustrated as the "smokey cloud from hell".
He just left five minutes ago.
Throughout the story, Granny has lost the knowledge of time.
“Oh, no, Mother. Oh, no. . . .”
On the two previous highlights, Granny can't hear and focus on Cornelia. Cornelia notices it and becomes worried.
“Mother, how do you feel now?” and a stinging wetness on her forehead. But I don’t like having my face washed in cold water!
Unlike her younger self, she does tasks without her mother's permission for the sake of her mother. Cornelia has grown up to take responsibility of the house and to take care of Granny Weatherall, even if she doesn't approve.
Plenty of girls get jilted.
Jilted means an ending of a relationship based on love. This indicates Granny was thinking of an old lover.
The word "jilt" comes up a lot, signifying the story's motif and potential ending.
For sixty years she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head when she had just got rid of Doctor Harry and was trying to rest a minute.
Granny remembers about an old acquaintance. Lover? Friend? "Smokey cloud from hell" could also be symbolism of death.
God, for all my life I thank Thee. Without Thee, my God, I could never have done it.
Granny thanks God for extending her life. Granny living passed her expected departure filled Granny with pride, but also humbleness.
Their eyes followed the match and watched the flame rise and settle in a blue curve, then they moved away from her.
The fire represented the life within Granny. This could be symbolism for death when it says, "they moved away from her."
A fog rose over the valley, she saw it marching across the creek swallowing the trees and moving up the hill like an army of ghosts.
Symbolism for death and hinting of Granny's demise.
Old. Cornelia couldn’t change the furniture around without asking.
At a younger age, Cornelia never did anything without her mother's approval.
That was all just a notion like a lot of other things, but it was lucky too, for she had once for all got over the idea of dying for a long time. Now she couldn’t be worried. She hoped she had better sense now.
Twenty year later, Granny is still alive and kicking. She expected to die, but she didn't. Now, Granny doesn't expect death in her near future and does not fear it, after living past her expected departure.
When she was sixty she had felt very old, finished, and went around making farewell trips to see her children and grandchildren, with a secret in her mind: This is the very last of your mother, children! Then she made her will and came down with a long fever.
Earlier in Granny Weatherall's life, she thought she was going to die. She kept her departure a secret and went to see her family. During this time, Granny was afraid.
She had spent so much time preparing for death there was no need for bringing it up again.
For twenty years, she expected to die due to pneumonia. Death was always on her mind, she didn't have to think of it for the idea to haunt her.