The Stories of O’Connor (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1955
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Memory, Class conflict, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Sin or Original sin, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Truth, Death or dying, Widows or widowers
Critical Evaluation:
Criticism of Flannery O’Connor’s two novels and two original collections of short stories notes the dramatic power of the nineteen stories in her two collections but is repelled by their shocking conclusions. If readers could narrow their application to the South from whence they come, as they can with TOBACCO ROAD, for example, they would be much happier; but since her stories deal wholly with universals and are pervaded by an irony that seems both to involve and to mock, readers are forced to recognize that her vision encompasses the human...
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