she was desperate to marry, a man named George who jilted her on their wedding day 60 years ago. Ellen Weatherall sounds like Miss Havisham in Dickens's "Great Expectations": burning with repressed resentment for the next 60 years that the one man she wanted to spend her life with did not want to spend his with her: "What does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the cake for a man and he doesn't come?" (p. 1487).
But, unlike Miss Havishman, who spent the rest of her life rotting in her wedding room in her crumbling wedding dress surrounded by long decayed wedding gi
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