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An 8 page analysis of four of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories (“A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, “Good Country People”, “Revelation”, and “Parker's Back”). The author of this paper contends that O’Connor utilizes humor to deliver deep and meaningful messages to her readers. Most often her message has deep and profound religious meaning but is made more palatable by O’Connor’s quick wit and phenomenal sense of human behavior. Her success rests to a large degree as well on the reader’s familiarity of the situations and circumstances. Without humor and without familiarity O’Connor would be a literary flop. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Flannery OConnor is a captivating contemporary author who utilizes humor to deliver deep and meaningful messages to her readers.
Most often her message has deep and profound religious meaning but is made more palatable by OConnors quick wit and phenomenal sense of human behavior. Her success rests to
a large degree as well on the readers familiarity of the situations and circumstances. Without humor and without familiarity OConnor would be a literary flop. Hagen (2002, PG)
notes: "Students feel comfortable with her rural southern settings, with the limited urban skylines of
her southern cities, even with her grotesque and degenerate characters. They know of Bible salesmen, they remember disdain for niggers, and recognize all the undependable stereotypes of good country people".
Hagens assertion is humorously true. OConnor offers us something that is difficult to replicate
in literature. She offers us a sometimes shocking view of ourselves and our inner psyches. "Revelation" is one of her most interesting works in this regard. "Revelation"
forces us to accept humanity with all of its glories and all of its faults. James Andreas (1989, 25) observes the range of human behavior presented by OConnor:
from "ego-centered behavior that is usually disguised as its better--as altruism, self-respect, or good manners and
breeding" to "a behavior where mutual interdependence, or what OConnor calls convergence is discovered" Indeed,
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