 | Ray B. West, Jr. - Biography & Autobiography - 1963 - 50 pages
...she was expressing, not the dilemma of Miranda alone, but the dilemma of all who seek understanding. "At least I can know the truth about what happens to me," Miranda thinks, "making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance." "Old Mortality" is... | |
 | Gilbert A. Harrison - Literature, Modern - 1972 - 412 pages
...thing. What is the truth, she asked herself, as intently as if the question had never been asked. ... At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself in her hopefulness, her ignorance. The ironic... | |
 | Maureen Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1977 - 390 pages
...she was expressing, not the dilemma of Miranda alone, but the dilemma of all who seek understanding. "At least I can know the truth about what happens to me," Miranda thinks, "making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance." "Old Mortality" is... | |
 | Katherine Anne Porter - Fiction - 1979 - 508 pages
...them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance. Noon... | |
 | Katherine Anne Porter - Manners and customs - 1939 - 234 pages
...them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance. NOON... | |
 | James T. F. Tanner - History - 1990 - 252 pages
...them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance. (Collected... | |
 | Alison Booth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 414 pages
...them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance. With... | |
 | Gail Linda Mortimer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 238 pages
...assail [Porter's] characters" (ES 35). When at the end of the story Miranda insists to herself that "at least I can know the truth about what happens to me," Porter's narrator has the final word, noting that Miranda has made this promise to herself "in her... | |
 | Julie Brown - Literary Collections - 1995 - 404 pages
...story, however, Porter emphasizes the arrogance of Miranda's resolve to find her own separate truth: "At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance" (221).... | |
 | Kristina K. Groover - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 160 pages
.... . . Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. ... At least I can know the truth about what happens to me, she assured herself silently, making a promise to herself, in her hopefulness, her ignorance. (182)... | |
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I can't live in their world any longer, she told herself, listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to... 
