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A 4 page paper examining Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' from a theological standpoint. The paper asserts that to attempt to analyze O'Connor's fiction from a humanistic standpoint is to miss its entire point - that the pivotal moments in our lives occur with an experience of a breakthrough to Christian consciousness. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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felt that having the basis of a sacramental theology -- her Catholicism -- was a great benefit to her fiction, because of the way fiction uses analogy to build on
the real connections between the physical and the spiritual. For all OConnors characters, the pivotal moments in their lives occur with an experience of a breakthrough to Christian consciousness; this
can readily be seen in the case of Hulga/Joy Hopewell of "Good Country People." In a letter dated August 7, 1955,
Flannery OConnor wrote, "One of the awful things about writing when you are Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation,
the whole reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead" (OConnor, quoted
in Schilling, 14). This is a startling statement, and becomes even more startling the further one considers its ramifications. OConnor, in her
lifetime, complained frequently about her work being misunderstood (Schilling, 14). Pious Catholics expected her work to be sentimentally uplifting and "inspirational"; the literary community - in other words, those
who OConnor suspected believed God to be dead -- found it puzzling and bizarre. For this reason, OConnor is often classified in the same category of Southern grotesque as Faulkner
and Tennessee Williams (Fiedler, 475). Her work is routinely taught in college classrooms with only passing reference made to its religious content. However, to interpret OConnor humanistically is to misinterpret
her completely. Flannery OConnors total reality was bound up in the salvation of the world through the Incarnation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Only with this
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