Shiftlet in O'Connor's Story

Flannery O'Connor's short article “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” chronicles a vintage woman, her female child, and a tramp. Lucynell Crater and her brain disputed only daughter Lucynell reside in a country mountainous locality on rather collapsed property. At the story's starting, Lucynell the elder and her female child sit on the porch in rocking seating, iplying most of their days are slovenly and uneventful as, in all likelihood, neither work or have obligations. A suave one-armed polite man strolling through the locality advances them. Beginning with little converse, Mr. Shiftlet converses with the vintage ...