• Lost her mother by the age of two, and was neglected by her father 

• She ended up living with her grandmother 

• From early childhood had been writing stories, she described as the passion of her life
•1930 her first book, "Flowering Judas" was published. It was a collection of short stories, impressed critics, though only conjured up modest sales
• She acquired a Guggenheim fellowship from "Flowering Judas"
• "Ship of Fools" (1962) was the only novel she published
• Obtained a Texas Institute of Letters fiction award for Ship of Fools and a Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Stories in 1966. 

• The quote above displays characteristics that modern writers used in the 20th century. Modern writers were often seen as pessimistic because they wrote about the chaotic and unstable environments. The characters lost their sense of faith and question their identity and existence. In this case, Porter writes about how Granny has lost her faith and will to live after her jilting experience. Granny said she has planned for her death after she was left at the altar by her then fiance, George. All while saying this, Granny is in her deathbed thinking back to the days when her children were younger and considerate. Porter uses a common technique that many modern writers used called stream-of-consciousness. The story goes back and forth from past to present showing Granny's distorted mind as she lies dying. The readers are put into Granny's shoes as she talks about her past life, recreating the moments.  

  "What's a woman 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?" (The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,1038) 
•This quote embodies Porter's modernist ways in her writing by bringing forth taboo, nontraditional themes to the table. Talking about how granny was jilted by her then fiance, George, 60 years prior gives an example of how said themes were embraced in the movement. Further more, it also is an example of Porter's renowned technique of stream-of-consciousness, letting the readers determine, through context and tone, how granny was feeling inside, without plainly stating it, even being able to do so through a third person point-of-view.

  "Well, she could just hear Cornelia telling her husband that Mother was getting a little childish and they'd have to humor her. The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb, and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around her..." (The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, 1037) 
•This quote correlates to modernism in ways such as that it embraces character flaw. Granny, in this segment, expresses her annoyance with her daughter, Cornelia, which readers can assume to be loving and caring towards her mother. Granny personifies the frequent themes of impertinence within modernist works. Even focusing on how Granny is not the modest writer's conventional hero, rather representing the alienated individual scattered along works that share the same ideology.