Similarity Between Greenleaf And Revelation Summary

First, one of the biggest similarity between Greenleaf and Revelation is the main characters. Mrs May, from the story Greenleaf, and Mrs Turpin, from Revelation are both matronly women who own a farm and think they are better than everybody else. Mrs May believes that the Greenleaf are lazy and fanatical and that she should had have sons like O.T. and E.T. Greenleaf because she is a better, more hard-working person then them. She holds them in contempt, and she thinks that nobody else but her would have employed Mr Greenleaf, although it is implied that he is the reason the farm survived. Mrs. Turpin, on the other hand, constantly thanks Jesus that she was not born a black woman or white thrash, because she thinks both these kind of people are bellow her, a respectable, land-owning white woman. She keeps herself up at night thinking about whether she would rather be white trash or a black woman, and she tries to divide people into classes.
Secondly, another important similarity between these two texts are that both people who are not pious enough in O'Connor's standards get punished by animals. In Greenleaf, Mrs May, who mocks Mrs Greenleaf's religious dedication and considers …show more content…
Mrs May has two sons, Wesley, an intellectual, and Scofield, who sells insurances to black people, who do not get along and that she does not really love. Her husband died and she raised her sons alone, and because of that the relationship between Mrs May and her sons is tense. Mrs Turpin however does not seem to have any children, and her husband is alive. Mr and Mrs Turpin's relationship is happy and loving. Mrs Turpin thanks Jesus that she is the one to have married him, and after she is assaulted by Mary Grace, her first instinct is to make sure that her husband is alright, even if she is the one who had a book thrown at her face and a girl attempt to strangle her to