His short essay "Flannery O'Connor and the Theology of Discontent" offers his analysis of A Stroke of Good Fortune. "What is it that makes O’Connor’s stories so alluring, so compelling and yet so incomprehensible to many first time readers?" Explore this question and ruminate on the realism in O'Connor's stories, "realism that is hinged to the mystery of evil and which presents God as the "Inescapable Jesus"." "The Enduring Mystery of Truth" deciphers …showed first 75 words of 229 total…

…showed last 75 words of 229 total…into a story about a man wearing a blue suit and a black, broad-brimmed hat. Mr. Sparrow makes an intriguing connection between the historical background of The Displaced Person and the necessity of virtue in No Place Like Home. What exactly is the nature of innocence? Are children the only innocents, or is there more to the concept than a dictionary definition of freedom from guilt or sin? Perhaps these characters from nine O'Connor stories,