Dec 29, 2009
Flannery O’Connor summed up her identity in a threefold characterization, calling herself “a Catholic, and a Southerner, and a writer.” Her Catholicism is evident in every story, though few seem to be overtly religious in the conventional sense. Similarly, the South is an element in every story, even those few not set in the South. Finally, as a writer, she experienced the ironic detachment that came from being unusual; her fiction is peopled with misfits and with “normal” Southerners.
Her Catholicism and her Southern identity provided a sense...
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