The story shows how our comfortable assumptions regarding the goodness or evil of these characters are turned upside down by O Connor s emphasis on nontraditional values. No additional 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 writer is particularly concerned with the way this novel inverts a racist symbol into an emblem of antiracist redemption. Bibliography cited 5 sources. A 5 page paper showing how O'Connor develops her themes of grace and redemption through the ornery character of Mrs. May in this short story. Bibliography lists 5 sources. A seven page biographical look at this important twentieth century author.