A Different Look at Flannery O’Connor Essay -- Flannery O’Connor

A unlike Look at Flannery OConnor A murdering messiah. A Bible-selling prosthesis thief. A corpse in full Confederate regalia waiting in line a Coca-Cola machine. One of the most haunting qualities about Flannery OConnors fictionalization is the often shocking but always memorable images adding intensity to her stories. Her wild comedy is a fusion of opposite realities--an explosive meeting mingled with contradictory forces. She creates characters from the southern grandmothers, mothers, preachers, neighbors, and assorted good country people populating her world, apply their traits, words and behaviors to give her fictional world life. And we are as acquainted(predicate) with them as she is. We know them they could be people from our region, our town, our family. Just regular folks. scarcely she pushes them beyond normal boundaries, beyond any reality we or they could speculate by introducing them to their opposite. The person on the other end of reality. For exa mple, the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find appears to be the uninventive grandmother busily involved in her fami...