Since Catholics possess the true religion, they have the clearest vision of reality. Even Flannery O’Connor writes, “ because I am a Catholic, I cannot afford to be less than an artist.” They realize that grace manifest itself everywhere in nature and that the writer must not fall into the category of being sentimental or obscene. The world has fallen, the writer must not be scandalized by the effects. The truth does not change to the ability of whether or not we can stomach it. “He himself cannot move or mold reality in the interest of abstract truth.” He must fulfill his vocation as a writer and inform the reader about the good and bad that is presented in the …show more content…
This is why “For the writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in the eye.” He transforms abstract in reality into sensible objects such as the characters, circumstances, times, and places, so that we may be able to see, grasp, and understand the mysteries and the truths of reality more fully. The eye is the mechanism that sees the hidden truth in the characters of the story. For example, the moral of the story in Little Red Riding hood is that children should not talk or trust strangers. Not everyone has a good disposition. A child may not understand this truth readily but by reading the Fictional story about the “big bad wolf,” he sees the reality in it thru the outcome of the fictional but sensible characters. It wasn't obscene or sentimental, the writer wrote the absolute truth and he fulfilled his vocation as a