Compare And Contrast The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall And Young Goodman Brown

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne both look into events that could not actually occur. However, although “Young Goodman Brown” is a fantasy story, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is not. A fantasy story is one in which the events depicted do not occur in real life. One may automatically argue that if this definition is used for fantasy, then “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” must be considered a fantasy story since deceased babies do not visit their dying mothers. However, this visit does not constitute a fantasy story because the visit is merely a hallucination of the dying woman. And hallucinations do occur in real life, especially for people who are older or