In the story Revelation, Mrs.Turpin shows self-righteous undertones of God. Mrs. Turpin believe it was Jesus that gave her and her husband the social status they achieved, and she believe that certain people did not deserve the same, such as colored people and those considered to be white trash. She judges everyone on their appearance and her character reflected that until she met a girl named Mary Grace who indirectly revealed the true Mrs. Turpin and thus changed the way she looked at herself. Through the use of all three of these themes, O’Connor displays the transgressions of humanity in an effort to bring upon change amongst the people of today.
Mrs.Turpin and Mary Grace shows an extreme amount of tension in the room between them. Mary Grace is the daughter of the woman with whom Mrs.Turpin is conversing with in the waiting room and she is highly irritated by the air of selfishness that Mrs.Turpin shows throughout the short story. However, nothing truly bothersome occurred. …show more content…
When Mary Grace calls Mrs. Turpin a wart hog, the comparison weighed heavily on Mrs Turpin's mind. She rushes to the pig parlor focused on confronting God's revelation within the animals she was compared to. She wanted to see if she was truly acting like one of these pigs at the parlor. With the white-trash woman's disdainful words haunting her: "A-gruntin and a-rootin and a-groanin," Mrs. Turpin sprays down the hogs violently in an attempt to cleanse her sins and transgression by cleansing her animals. But she can not wash away the truth because she is a pig. She can not see the fact that all men are equal and created by God. O’Connor uses this revelation to show how society goes around judging people without looking at the menace within themselves. Overall, O’Connor compares people to animals in order to show how revelation can give birth to change and show the way people walk around judging others without looking at
Mrs.Turpin and Mary Grace shows an extreme amount of tension in the room between them. Mary Grace is the daughter of the woman with whom Mrs.Turpin is conversing with in the waiting room and she is highly irritated by the air of selfishness that Mrs.Turpin shows throughout the short story. However, nothing truly bothersome occurred. …show more content…
When Mary Grace calls Mrs. Turpin a wart hog, the comparison weighed heavily on Mrs Turpin's mind. She rushes to the pig parlor focused on confronting God's revelation within the animals she was compared to. She wanted to see if she was truly acting like one of these pigs at the parlor. With the white-trash woman's disdainful words haunting her: "A-gruntin and a-rootin and a-groanin," Mrs. Turpin sprays down the hogs violently in an attempt to cleanse her sins and transgression by cleansing her animals. But she can not wash away the truth because she is a pig. She can not see the fact that all men are equal and created by God. O’Connor uses this revelation to show how society goes around judging people without looking at the menace within themselves. Overall, O’Connor compares people to animals in order to show how revelation can give birth to change and show the way people walk around judging others without looking at