In the short story, “Everything that Rises Must Converge”, by Mary Flannery O’Connor is told from the close third-person of view of Julian, who just recently graduated college who lives with his mother because he can’t afford his own place to stay with the yearning to be a salesman. His mother is a middle-aged working woman, the remnant of a once upper-class, slaveholding family. The story starts with Julian’s mother preparing to go to her YMCA exercise class that is recommended for her high blood pressure. She insists that her son, Julian, accompany her on the bus, because she is afraid to ride alone as the bus system have become integrated. Julian is superficially educated in liberal ideas, and is contemptuous of her racial bigotry and believes he is vastly more enlightened and intellectual than her.
As the story opens,she is undecided as to whether she should wear the new green hat with purple velvet flaps she has recently bought or take it back to the store. After all, that seven dollars and fifty cents would pay the gas bill. Julian whose viewpoint dominates the
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The color red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. The color red connected to the lady with the thin feet that wore the red and white sandals. She was on the bus with Julian and his mother, which she shared the same belief as her. It was also connected with Julian’s mother when she was angry with him because he crossed the aisle to sit beside the African American. Also when her blood pressure was going up and he was looking at her with a smirk on his face. Carver’s mother was another connection with red because she had a red pocket book on her arm when she swung at Julian’s