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In four pages this paper discusses how Flannery O’Connor reveals herself as a Southerner and devout Catholic in this trio of short stories. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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of her Southern-born contemporary William Faulkner. Like Faulkner, she relied heavily upon the landscape of the American South to provide the settings and the conflicts for her tales.
The world inhabited by her fiction is characterized by its "Southernness" (Jordan 48). Southern attitudes and prejudices also provided character shading that allowed OConnor to socially comment on narrow-mindedness
of her regional contemporaries. Her devout Catholicism was just as important to OConnor as was her Southern heritage. She described her religious views in the 1957 article
entitled The Fiction Writer and His Country, in which she explained, "I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of
Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in its relation
to that" (Jordan 48). OConnor fervently believed in redemption that comes shortly before death in which an individual must accept his or her mortal fate. In such short
stories as A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and Greenleaf, female protagonists who are swift in their passing of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations
that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and
preparing them to accept their moment of grace" (Jordan 48). The shocking 1955 short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is described by OConnor as "a parable of
grace and redemption" (Bandy 107). The protagonist is a busybody Southern grandmother who is always telling others what to do and making discriminatory value judgments that are often inappropriate.
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