The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The setting for this story is in the 1940's on a desolate old farm in of repair and in the middle of nowhere. There is a big expanse of sky adding to the loneliness and isolation. There are three mountains against the dark blue sky visited off and on by the moon and various planets. An old lady sits on her front porch with her daughter watching the sunset.

In the short story, “the Life You Save May Be Your Own”, by Flannery O'Connor the author takes the reader down into the depths of a ...