Flannery O’Connor Group at eNotes

The moment of grace is after Mrs. Turpin has complained to the black...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:50:09 PST

The moment of grace is after Mrs. Turpin has complained to the black women about the girl at the doctor's office, then she goes down to the pigpen and shouts at the hogs. The problem is that she interprets the college girl in the doctor's waiting room as insulting her, when she was the one insulting everyone around her by the way she was talking about blacks in a very racist way. Up until her moment of grace, she could still frame her world...

What is the moment of grace in O'Connor's "Revelation"

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:27:58 PST

What is the moment of grace in O'Connor's "Revelation"

Flannery O'Connor has been called many things religious: a Christian...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:37:27 PST

Flannery O'Connor has been called many things religious: a Christian humanist, a sacramental writer, a fundamentalist, a Yahwist, a mean Christian, and my favorite, a "Roman Catholic not like a Baptist or Methodist but like an Atheist." In Miss O'Connor we find a devout Catholic, but her characters are evangelical Protestants; she is an orthodox who divulges no explicit theology; and she is a writer of Christian concerns who lampoons modern...

What religious message is O'Connor trying to portray in her writings?...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:14:57 PST

What religious message is O'Connor trying to portray in her writings? What are some of her stories in which religion the most prominent theme?

Hulga's wooden leg gives her a sense of freedom. She does not have to...

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:37:38 PST

Hulga's wooden leg gives her a sense of freedom. She does not have to conform to societal expectations to be pretty, charming and attract a man to marry her. Hulga, because of her wooden leg, feels compelled to do what ever she wants, because she knows that society, men, will reject her in the traditional way, no one will want to marry her, so she is free to experience life in her own way. She does this by throwing herself at Manley...

In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," Hulga seems disgruntled...

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:18:02 PST

In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," Hulga seems disgruntled about something as she is described as the large hulking Joy, who constant outrage had obliterated every expression from [Mrs. Hopewell's] face. When asked by her mother to walk over the fields with her, Joy (as she is named by her mother) makes remarks that are so ugly and her face so glum that Mrs. Hopewell would say, 'If you can't come prleasantly, I don't want you at...

In "Good Country People," how does Hulga feel about her wooden leg?

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:50:10 PST

In "Good Country People," how does Hulga feel about her wooden leg?

"Good Country People" IS a strange mixture of humor and...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:13:21 PST

"Good Country People" IS a strange mixture of humor and bizarre stuff!!! Love that one, too, and you're right...it DOES get a lot of discussion going in the classroom. :-)

I, too, love O'Connor. Her work defies any kind of categorization. My...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:42:25 PST

I, too, love O'Connor. Her work defies any kind of categorization. My favorite story to read and to teach is "Good Country People." It is both hilarious and shockingly bizarre. The scene in which Manley Pointer (pun intended) runs off with Hulga's fake leg evokes a lot of discussion from students--in fact, I have even taken the time to read the story aloud in class so that they can experience it together. If you have students who...

Favorite Stories?

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:28:50 PST

I can't believe this group has no posts. Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite writers! She's incredible.

My favorite story is, hands-down, "A Good Man is Hard to Find." I teach this story in each of my Introduction to Literature courses and the students always love it!

My question to you is what are your favorite Flannery O'Connor stories?