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Quote #1
The pillow rose about her shoulders and pressed against her heart and the memory was being squeezed out of it: oh, push down the pillow, somebody: it would smother her if she tried to hold it. Such a fresh breeze blowing and such a green day with no threats in it. But he had not come, just the same (29).
So that's kind of weird: Granny's pillow triggers a memory of the day she was jilted. What's the effect of introducing the jilting incident in this way?
Quote #2
What does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn't come? She tried to remember. No, I swear he never harmed me but in that. He never harmed me but in that. . .and what if he did? (29).
If jilting her was the only harm that George ever inflicted, it seems like poor Granny was pretty much blindsided, which probably made the experience of being abandoned a whole lot more traumatic.
Quote #3
There was the day, the day, but a whirl of dark smoke rose and covered it, crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted so carefully in orderly rows. That was hell, she knew hell when she saw it (29).
Whoa, pretty intense. How is being jilted or abandoned similar to hell?