Independent Reading 1: Flannery O'Connor In the short stories Revelation and A Good Man is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor both themes for the stories illustrate the there are people who can demonstrate a false aspect of who they really are and once something abruptly triggers them they suddenly show their true selves. For example, in the Revelation Ruby Turpin, a very religious, calm and caring woman and one of the main characters of the short story, The woman has sat in a waiting room after hesitantly looking around for a place to be seated in a doctor’s office waiting room along with her husband, Claud Turpin. As the woman is sitting there and having a casual conversations about many small talk kind of topics, like the clock on the wall and how the women live their lives, as they are sitting there conversing the pleasant woman's daughter, Mary Grace, counties to angrily glaze at Mrs.Turpin. Mrs.Turpin doesn’t understand why the young lady seems to have some kind of hatred towards her even though they had no past interactions.
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She goes to the place where her and Claud keep their livestock, and she is so angered towards what the ugly girl has said towards her she began to become enraged and began to spray directly at the animals rather than spraying and cleaning the concrete. Everything that happened at the doctor’s office impacted Ruby Turpin so deeply that she began to harm the things she cared for so deeply; this can be in comparison with Flannery O'Connor's other short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find. In the short story, a family is taking a trip for the Grandmother and as they are traveling the Grandmother wants to visit one of the houses she had previously remembered from her past, she told her son that they should turn back and go visit but Bailey, the son, is hesitant because it was a dirt road and they would have to travel back another mile. While
She goes to the place where her and Claud keep their livestock, and she is so angered towards what the ugly girl has said towards her she began to become enraged and began to spray directly at the animals rather than spraying and cleaning the concrete. Everything that happened at the doctor’s office impacted Ruby Turpin so deeply that she began to harm the things she cared for so deeply; this can be in comparison with Flannery O'Connor's other short story A Good Man Is Hard To Find. In the short story, a family is taking a trip for the Grandmother and as they are traveling the Grandmother wants to visit one of the houses she had previously remembered from her past, she told her son that they should turn back and go visit but Bailey, the son, is hesitant because it was a dirt road and they would have to travel back another mile. While