The writer is particularly concerned with the way this novel inverts a racist symbol into an emblem of antiracist redemption. Bibliography cited 5 sources. The paper argues that in her fiction, O'Connor tries to show how craven and worthless and ugly and stupid we are without the benefit of the grace of God. Bibliography lists 6 sources. The paper argues that the intrinsic violence of much of O'Connor's work comes from her unusual interpretation of the working out of God's grace in the world.
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The paper concludes that there is really very little valid basis for comparison, due to the differing literary outlooks of the writers themselves. No sources except critical article and O'Connor's book. The paper observes that the Southern woman conceals beneath her society's valuation of her as helpless a unique ability to navigate the waters of her culture. Bibliography lists 6 sources. The fictional works of Flannery O'Connor elicit several levels of emotion within the weave of racism and prejudice.