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In this article, Mary Flannery O’Connor is consider one of the most important short story writers of the twentieth century because of her strange but interesting characters, her violent plot elements, and her religious world view. O’Connor was a Roman Catholic writer who knew that most of her audience did not share her strict moral view of the world. She sought, however, to present a message of God’s grace and presence in everyday life. However, O’Connor was the only child of wealthy parents and attended high school in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her father, Edward Francis O’Connor, died when she was sixteen from degenerative lupus, the same disease that later took her life. O’Connor went to Georgia College and majored in social sciences and edited and wrote for school publications. This article will help me in the future because it will give me some background about this article.
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In this article, the grandmother is a manipulator. The grandmother and the children were going on a trip to Florida but the grandmother did not want to go to Florida because she wanted to see relatives in Tennessee. However, the family runs across a misfit and all hell breaks loose. The grandmother starts talking about religion thinking that it will help save her life. She also has to have everything go her way. She never does anything directly or confrontationally. This article will help me in the future because it will give me some background about this article.
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Collection of Literary Biographies, Retrospective Supplement 2. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 219-239. Scribner Writers on GVRL. Web. 9 Nov.