Wise Blood (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s
- Setting: The American South
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: South or Southerners, Blindness or blind persons, 1940’s, Religion, Christianity, Preaching, Corruption, Martyrs or martyrdom, Prophecy or prophets, Zoos, Fanaticism
- Locales: South (U.S.), Alabama
Characters Discussed
Hazel Motes, the protagonist, the twenty- two-year-old grandson of a backwoods preacher. He is driven to find Christ in the city. Hazel tested his grandfather’s religion in the Army and goes to the city of Taulkinham to test that religion again. He both distrusts and is haunted by it. Everything about Hazel, from his black hat to the look in his eyes, identifies him as a preacher to those who see him, but he devotes much of his stay in the city to trying to escape his religious destiny. Hazel is a loner whose only human contacts emerge from his attempts...
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