She does this by showing all of these corrupt characters in her story who have lost their morality. A perfect example of lose of morality is Manley who preys on peoples religous beliefs to steal handicapped people’s body parts. Jordan writes, “She is a literary artist, not a preacher or teacher or moral philosophy. She believes that fiction is art, not primarily moral instruction,” (52). I disagree with Jordan, it appears to me that O’Connor is writing her stories to show Americans that we have completely lost our morality. She gives us insight to her characters so we can see that they wear the mask to hide their flaws, with the hopes that we as readers will reflect and make an effort to be more understanding of one …show more content…
In his poem he expresses the pain that African Americans have endured and how they have to wear a mask to disguise this pain in hopes to have equal rights someday. Morgan writes, “ To be financially successful while maintaining his political and aesthetic stance, Dunbar had to create literary strategies capable of critiquing the social, political, economic, and cultural problems facing African Americans that, at the same time, would not explicitly confront white readers’ internalized beliefs regarding blacks,” (7). I agree with Morgan, Dunbar did have to think creatively to disguise his true message of pain without offending or upsetting white Americans. He wrote these poems describing the pain with the hopes that someday whites and blacks would both be equal and no longer need to wear the mask to disguise the