Flannery O’ Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. The theme that O’Connor often used in her work is religious themes, probably influenced by her Catholic parents. Furthermore, she is the only child of her parents. She had her education in parochial grammar school and high school. Her father died of lupus, a rare and incurable disease. Unfortunately, O’Connor suffered the same disease and died of lupus before her fortieth birthday. O’Connor is known as an American great writer, “Despite her brief life and relatively modest output, her work is regarded as among the most distinguished American fiction” (Meyer 350). Revelation was written by Flannery O’Connor and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must
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“Mrs. Turpin, who was very large, made it look even smaller her presence” (O’Connor 381). Readers can identify Mrs. Turpin as main character of the story by the way the story narrated based on her perspective. Anyone that caught in her view got judge as she is the superior than anyone else in the world. Understanding the narrator’s view that based on Mrs. Turpin’s perspective can help readers to understand how the character develop into a person full of arrogance and prejudice to other people. She simply judge people in the waiting room by their appearance. “She could tell by the way they sat-kind of vacant and white-trashy, as if they would sit there until Doomsday if nobody called and told them to get up” (O’ Connor 382). Her actions entirely portray her characteristics of judgmental person, annoying and malice. Throughout the story, we can identify that she thinks and believes herself as a good Christian and a pious human being. We can see it at the end of story when she blamed the God because send her an evil message which she thinks that she as a Church-going Christian shouldn’t receive such a disgusting message. She questioned the God, “Why me?” and continue asking with more question, “It’s no trash around here, black or white, that I haven’t given to. And break my back to the bone every day …show more content…
Turpin perspective. She used character’s name and the objects in the story to signify the events that occur throughout the story. Mrs. Turpin saw herself walking behind the people she claims to be white-trash, niggers and freak people. She realized that God’s grace applies to all human being and far more superior than human virtues. O’Connor often used religious theme which is significant in this story which the gospel music as the background music at the doctor’s waiting room and the revelation that Mrs. Turpin received at the end of the story. O’Connor successfully wrote this story with her style bewildered pious woman, Mrs. Turpin using symbol and the characters in the
“Mrs. Turpin, who was very large, made it look even smaller her presence” (O’Connor 381). Readers can identify Mrs. Turpin as main character of the story by the way the story narrated based on her perspective. Anyone that caught in her view got judge as she is the superior than anyone else in the world. Understanding the narrator’s view that based on Mrs. Turpin’s perspective can help readers to understand how the character develop into a person full of arrogance and prejudice to other people. She simply judge people in the waiting room by their appearance. “She could tell by the way they sat-kind of vacant and white-trashy, as if they would sit there until Doomsday if nobody called and told them to get up” (O’ Connor 382). Her actions entirely portray her characteristics of judgmental person, annoying and malice. Throughout the story, we can identify that she thinks and believes herself as a good Christian and a pious human being. We can see it at the end of story when she blamed the God because send her an evil message which she thinks that she as a Church-going Christian shouldn’t receive such a disgusting message. She questioned the God, “Why me?” and continue asking with more question, “It’s no trash around here, black or white, that I haven’t given to. And break my back to the bone every day …show more content…
Turpin perspective. She used character’s name and the objects in the story to signify the events that occur throughout the story. Mrs. Turpin saw herself walking behind the people she claims to be white-trash, niggers and freak people. She realized that God’s grace applies to all human being and far more superior than human virtues. O’Connor often used religious theme which is significant in this story which the gospel music as the background music at the doctor’s waiting room and the revelation that Mrs. Turpin received at the end of the story. O’Connor successfully wrote this story with her style bewildered pious woman, Mrs. Turpin using symbol and the characters in the