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This 5 page report discusses Flannery O’Connor’s 1957 short story and the ways in which it serves as an example of her personal sensibilities and understandings of the world, especially the inner world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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demonstrated that their very few degrees of separation between the two. Writing in the tradition known as "Southern Gothic," a style that most often focuses on the sublime
and the distorted extremes that are found existing side-by-side in reality, OConnor often presented a bizarre world to her readers. That world was grotesque in terms of its characters attitudes
toward what they calmly thought of as normal and the truly odd, even outrageous, circumstances that were acceptable as part of daily life and survival. And yet, virtually all of
her characters have a certain understanding of the presence of God in the world interwoven with their own twisted family relationships and how both have ultimately shaped their individual lives
and destinies. Mr. Fortune of "A View of the Woods" (1957) is an example of what Flannery OConnor clearly understood to be a truly perverse and damnable creature. "A View
of the Woods" In "A View of the Woods," OConnor tells one of her bizarre stories in which the insanity of actions taken by the characters actually represents a
certain form of logic, insane logic, but still logic. Seventy-nine-year-old Mr. Fortune and his nine-year-old granddaughter, Mary Fortune Pitts, are both fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly
demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his granddaughter are to one another. For example, she describes the interaction between Fortune and Mary by writing: "She didnt move an
inch. She had a habit of his of not hearing what she didnt want to hear and since this was a little trick he had taught her himself, he had
to admire the way she practiced it" (PG). They were both determined people whose actions were more products of their own stubborn convictions than they were of any sense of
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