Abstract: Catherine Anne Porter,a successful American modernist writer,has been admired by many of the best critical minds of the century and plenty of readers.They marvel over the elegant style,the profound thought,and the full-blooded characterization she has achieved in her stories.The Jilting of Granny Weatherwall is an excellent work of successful use of stream of consciousness and symbolism.This article aims to study the reality of the society in the early stage of the 20th century with the technique of stream of consciousness and symbolism.