Before even reading or hearing about Flannery O’Connor’s background, I thought that she was a he and his works would be about the Irish in the 40’s and 50’s. So it was a quite a shock to learn that Flannery was a) a woman and b0 she writes about life in the South. She spent most of her life in the South in a Christian household, which finds its way into her work. …showed first 75 words of 554 total…

…showed last 75 words of 554 total…her faults and as Marshall Bruce Gentry states in Flannery O’Connor’s Religion of the Grotesque, “Ruby Turpin […] dreams repeatedly that all the social classes ‘are crammed together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven,’ and in her final vision she manages to see herself on a fiery pathway to heaven.” Mary Grace’s goal, if it was to knock some sense into Ruby, had paid off.