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Flannery O'Connor · 1965
A collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor exploring themes of grace, redemption, and human conflict through darkly comic narratives set in the American South. The introduction by Robert Fitzgerald contextualizes O'Connor's unique religious vision and her craft as a writer.
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Grace arrives as violence: O'Connor's grotesque fiction shows self-righteous souls shattered into sudden, unwilling revelation.
faith-and-doubt
If Jesus had said you can't be a good woman with it, she would have said, 'Well don't make me that then. Make me a good woman.'
ERMC-RC-155'You make out like you got all this confidence in me and you ain't got any!' — a cry of reproach, edged slightly with contempt.
ERMC-RC-136'Where you came from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.'
ERMC-RC-016self-and-identity
He knew without conceit that he was a good man, that he had nothing to reproach himself with. His feelings about Johnson were involuntary.
ERMC-RC-142'Are you a Fortune or are you a Pitts? Make up your mind.' 'I'm Mary-Fortune-Pitts.' 'Well I am PURE Fortune!'
ERMC-RC-071shame
Her tendency, with the best intentions, was to make a mockery of virtue, pursuing it with such mindless intensity that virtue itself became ridiculous.
ERMC-RC-100Illuminates
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