Mrs. Turpin In Revelation

Mrs. Turpin in the story Revelation by Flannery O’Connor is a very interesting character. Mrs. Turpin thinks of herself as a righteous Christian. She depicts herself as a respectable and very charitable person. She views herself as a morally superior person that is going to be save come judgement day. Mrs. Turpin in reality has not one of these qualities, although she promotes herself as women that is saved and going to receive an eternal bliss. Instead of having true Christian qualities she is judgmental and a racist. One is able to view the way Mrs. Turpin racism by looking at the way she judges people on her ranking system. At the bottom of her ranking system is Blacks and white Trash and above that are people that are homeowners. Above …show more content…
Turpin. She a devoted Christian began to question god. “why do you send me message like that for? How am I a hog and me both? How am I saved from hell too” asked Mrs. Turpin? She was hurt that god would let Mary Grace speak to her in that matter. Then in Mrs. Turpin she hears god asking her who do you think you are?, it was her echo but in Mrs. Turpin mind it was the lord talking to her. This shocked Mrs. Turpin into a vision, in this trance she saw a complete opposite of what heaven would be like.” There were whole companies of white trash, clean for the first time in their lives, and bands of black niggers in white robes, and battalions of freaks and lunatics shouting and clapping and leaping like frogs.” These are the people that Mrs. Turpin judges the most and now there are the first to go to heaven. Next you have Mrs. Turpin kind of folks “and bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognized at once as those who, like herself and Claud had a little of everything and the given wit to use it right.” In this vision, Mrs. Turpin see herself at the end of the bridge to go to heaven. She expected to be the first on line to heaven but because of her actions and hatred to other in life she was