Everything That Rises Must Converge | O'Connor's Religious Vision
In the following essay, the author discusses how O’Connor’s religious vision shapes the seemingly secular content of ‘‘Everything That Rises Must Converge.’’
In many essays and public statements, O’Connor identifies herself as a Catholic writer and asserts that her aims as an artist are inextricably tied to her religious faith. She claims that it is her specific goal to offer a glimpse of God’s mystery and, thus, to lead readers—whom she sees as, for the most part, spiritually lost in the modern, secular world—back toward the path of redemption.
This information may be somewhat bewildering for those first approaching O’Connor’s writing through her short story ‘‘Everything That Rises Must Converge.’’ While some of...
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