In The Moral Function of Distortion in Southern Grotesque the author, Delma Presley, explains how different authors express their grotesque works. By using different analogies, Presley explains each author which makes it more intelligible to the reader. “Flannery
O’ Connor’s point is that grotesque literature exists because writers are faced with the reality that they live in an age whose distortions function as indicators of how far man has drifted from his true image as a creature of God…” (Presley 39). Authors such as O’ Connor, Faulkner, and Sweat wanted to show the truth about the South with a twist. All three of these authors had a tendency to propose new ideas to readers that made the way the reader would think on a normal day to day …show more content…
Although her stories are true, Zora Neale Hurston uses impeccable ways of showing how deranged her characters are in the short story Sweat. Delia Jones portrays a hard-working, southern black woman who constantly brings forth the food to the table and makes sure a roof remains over her head. Her husband, Sykes Jones, could be clarified as meaner than a snake. Sykes Jones uses the resources Delia has provided such as food to the table every night, a house, and transportation with her pony. Delia’s hands are very weary along with her body. She's frail, almost paper-like. Behind her stands a man who beats her mentally and physically. Hurston’s creation of the characters Delia and Sykes, constructed the story to be a guiltless southern grotesque story. A religious black woman who is brutally beaten and tortured by her husband with her greatest fear. Not many stories could conduct the true south in a way such as Hurston did. "Oh, fuh de light! Ah thought …show more content…
Flannery O’ Connor enables southern grotesque writing to what can be considered the next level. The main character in A Good Man Is Hard to Find evoked an unnamed grandmother who comes off as very judgmental. The grandmother sees herself as a virtue who could never do anything wrong. She can slander any person to come into her presence, but at the end of the day she considers herself to be the most heart-warming person on this earth. The grandmother in time pleads for her own life because she believed the misfit would never murder a true lady. Flannery O’ Connor unveils the truth of how cruel some people in the world can
O’ Connor’s point is that grotesque literature exists because writers are faced with the reality that they live in an age whose distortions function as indicators of how far man has drifted from his true image as a creature of God…” (Presley 39). Authors such as O’ Connor, Faulkner, and Sweat wanted to show the truth about the South with a twist. All three of these authors had a tendency to propose new ideas to readers that made the way the reader would think on a normal day to day …show more content…
Although her stories are true, Zora Neale Hurston uses impeccable ways of showing how deranged her characters are in the short story Sweat. Delia Jones portrays a hard-working, southern black woman who constantly brings forth the food to the table and makes sure a roof remains over her head. Her husband, Sykes Jones, could be clarified as meaner than a snake. Sykes Jones uses the resources Delia has provided such as food to the table every night, a house, and transportation with her pony. Delia’s hands are very weary along with her body. She's frail, almost paper-like. Behind her stands a man who beats her mentally and physically. Hurston’s creation of the characters Delia and Sykes, constructed the story to be a guiltless southern grotesque story. A religious black woman who is brutally beaten and tortured by her husband with her greatest fear. Not many stories could conduct the true south in a way such as Hurston did. "Oh, fuh de light! Ah thought …show more content…
Flannery O’ Connor enables southern grotesque writing to what can be considered the next level. The main character in A Good Man Is Hard to Find evoked an unnamed grandmother who comes off as very judgmental. The grandmother sees herself as a virtue who could never do anything wrong. She can slander any person to come into her presence, but at the end of the day she considers herself to be the most heart-warming person on this earth. The grandmother in time pleads for her own life because she believed the misfit would never murder a true lady. Flannery O’ Connor unveils the truth of how cruel some people in the world can