Flannery O'Connor's Stories Flannery O'Connor

In her short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor narrates the journey of a complex family and the encounters they face while traveling. While there are many aspects of the story that make it notorious in literature, one concept...

“For the creative artist possessed by Catholic imagination, God and grace lurk everywhere”, declares Andrew Greeley in The Catholic Imagination (10). His is a wide perspective of the sacramentality of things as opposed to the narrow Catholic usage...

Flannery O’Connor explores ‘generations’ and the hierarchies between them through her short stories, “The Artificial N*gger,” “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” and “Why Do The Heathen Rage?”. To that purpose, she uses the narrator as a giver...

Flannery O'Connor's short stories are notoriously filled with religious subtext and symbolism. In her final collection of stories, published after her death in 1964, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, much debate among critics and scholars...

A detailed description allows people to imagine even though not visible. Authors like Flannery O' Connor, in their works, have put in huge details in order to awaken the senses of the readers and help imagine the minutest of details. This aids...

When does redemption cross the lines between righteousness and damnation? When does the end truly justify the means? Sometimes, it can be hard to discern when it is acceptable to right a wrong with another wrong. However, in the cases of the...

The working class often describes those who work blue-collar jobs with low wages. Those who belong to the working class often face job insecurity because they do not have the same rights and safeguards for their jobs, unlike their employers, who...

In Powers of Horror Julia Kristeva brings up a subject of abjection and states that it is “positioned somewhere between the I, the subject, and the object” (Graulund). To put it in Kristeva’s own words, the abject functions in the “in-between, the...