Revelation (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1964
- Genres: Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: Georgia
The Work
The character in “Revelation” whose point of view readers experience, Mrs. Ruby Turpin, typifies one of author Flannery O’Connor’s satiric identities. Most of the story takes place in a doctor’s waiting room, and Mrs. Turpin categorizes the other people in the room in reference to her own self-image. Mrs. Turpin, to a limited extent, represents a generation of morally blind Southern ladies in cotton print dresses and pillbox hats.
The bulk of the irony in this story is directed at Mrs. Turpin’s spiritual blindness and the falseness of her identity,...
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