A Critical Analysis of "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor's background influenced her to write the short story "
Revelation." One important influence on the story is her Southern upbringing.
During her lifetime, Southerners were very prejudiced towards people of other
races and lifestyles. They believed that people who were less fortunate were
inferior to them; therefore, people were labeled as different things and placed
into different social classes. The South provided O'Connor with the images she
needed for her characters. Similarly, this can easily be identified in her
short story "Revelation." The characters in the story are identified by
physical characteristics and some are even identified with racial terms. The
main character in the story is actually prejudiced and makes many statements
using racial jargon. For example, Mrs. Turpin, the main character, refers to
the higher class woman as "well-dressed and pleasant". She also labels the
teenage......
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