Revelation Essay In the story Revelation by Flannery O’Connor, the main character Mrs. Ruby Turpin is looked at as a woman who thinks she is above all others. In the story a girl named Mary Grace, causes Mrs. Turpin to have what is called a revelation. When Mrs. Turpin has this revelation, Mrs. Turpin is said to no longer look at herself as above everyone else categorically. In the story the setting takes place mainly in a doctor’s office where Mr. and Mrs. Turpin await to see a doctor due to Mr. Turpin’s bruised leg. When the Turpins walk into the waiting room at the doctor’s office, Mrs. Turpin, whose a larger woman, browses for a seat that she will fit in. This is the point of the story where Mrs. Turpin starts to categorize
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Turpin got his leg checked out, and then the Turpin’s were on their way home. Mrs. Turpin, trying to come to terms with what Mary Grace had called her, asks God repeatedly why he would have someone treat her the way Mary Grace did. In “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor, it states, “‘How am I a hog?’ she demanded. ‘Exactly how am I like them?; and she jabbed the stream of water at the shoats. ‘There was plenty of trash there. It didn’t have to be me.’” (398). In “Revelation” it also states, “‘You could have made me trash. Or a nigger. If trash is what you wanted why didn’t you make me trash?’” (398). In these quotes, Mrs. Turpin is pleading to God with anger and confusion. She does not understand why God would have someone attack her, compared to the ‘white trash’ that was at the doctor’s office. Mrs. Turpin then says to God how he could have made her anything other or less than what she was. In the article “Revelation” by Roger Geimer, he states, “Finally she has a vision of a bridge that extends from the earth through a fire, and on the bridge are troops of souls whom she recognizes as blacks and white trash being washed clean for the first time in their lives. At the end of the procession, she sees staunch, respectable middle-class people such as Claud and herself, and she sees by the shock on their faces that these people have had their virtues burned away” (2). When Mrs. Turpin sees this happening, she
Turpin got his leg checked out, and then the Turpin’s were on their way home. Mrs. Turpin, trying to come to terms with what Mary Grace had called her, asks God repeatedly why he would have someone treat her the way Mary Grace did. In “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor, it states, “‘How am I a hog?’ she demanded. ‘Exactly how am I like them?; and she jabbed the stream of water at the shoats. ‘There was plenty of trash there. It didn’t have to be me.’” (398). In “Revelation” it also states, “‘You could have made me trash. Or a nigger. If trash is what you wanted why didn’t you make me trash?’” (398). In these quotes, Mrs. Turpin is pleading to God with anger and confusion. She does not understand why God would have someone attack her, compared to the ‘white trash’ that was at the doctor’s office. Mrs. Turpin then says to God how he could have made her anything other or less than what she was. In the article “Revelation” by Roger Geimer, he states, “Finally she has a vision of a bridge that extends from the earth through a fire, and on the bridge are troops of souls whom she recognizes as blacks and white trash being washed clean for the first time in their lives. At the end of the procession, she sees staunch, respectable middle-class people such as Claud and herself, and she sees by the shock on their faces that these people have had their virtues burned away” (2). When Mrs. Turpin sees this happening, she