Wise Blood (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Taulkinham, a city in the American South
- Principal Characters: Hazel Motes, Enoch Emery, Asa Hawks, Sabbath Lily, Hoover Shoats, Mrs. Flood
- 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
The Story:
When Hazel Motes was released from the army, he found his old home place deserted. Eastrod had been the home of his grandfather, a backwoods preacher who had assured Hazel that Jesus was hungry for his soul. Hazel had packed up his mother’s Bible and reading glasses and caught the train for Taulkinham. He rode uneasily in his $11.98 suit, startling one middle-class lady by suddenly telling her, “If you’ve been redeemed . . . I wouldn’t want to be.”
In the army, Hazel had decided that his grandfather’s preaching had been false, that sin did not...
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