Flannery O Connor The Enduring Fill Summary

Joe pulls a dish towel out of the drawer and handed it to me with a hint of a smirk, after I had opened and shut every other drawer in his family’s kitchen in search of just such a dry towel. I spread it out as a drip-catcher for a few measuring cups and stirring spoons, then took a sponge to some more dish. After a quick glance to Joe, then back at the strainer I was scrubbing, I managed to talk to him about the lecture he had given the night before in the library of the Boston retreat house a reading of Flannery O’Connor’s short story, The Enduring Chill. His comments about O’Connor’s work had spun my thoughts the way Flannery O’Connor found it her mission to make scenes, character flaws, and dialects larger than lives to making her message louder and “shout” to …show more content…
I set the strainer by the rows of measuring cups and asked Joe, “You know how you said Flannery O’Connor shouted to the atheists about grace? How is that her mission as a writer? Do you think a Christian has the same role today? Or… well… what do you think a Christian writer’s role should be?” He looked at me with a mix of approval and compassionate, as if I had asked a wonderful question, but as if he saw the anxiety lurking behind it. Closing the door of a cabinets and turns to me, he said, “You just write the best darn stories that you can.” It turned out Joe’s words set me free I had come to the Christian retreat house where art, being intellectual, and spirituality are celebrated with many questions; a major one being how to use my writing now that I had graduated, and more specifically, how to use it as a Christian. Joe’s words set me free because they are true. The best writing flow from what is important to the author. Its like music that is stuck in your head that you can’t help but sing. What’s on my mind is what come out in my poetry, short story, and creative