Flannery O'Connor

Introduction

After reading stories by Flannery O'Connor, the reader knows that this is a writer with strong religious, moral, and social convictions. Yet her grim and apparently godforsaken world is so full of fatalities, deformities, and depravity that her most common late among readers, and even in literary histories, is to he labeled with the epithet ,"grotesques". Try as much as we may we will not escape from this ultimate reality.

To bring home the universal terror and the radical reality of existence, O'Connor decided to shock her readers into awareness (Gentry 2005 p 23-27). She depicted everyday lives and used ...