Authors like Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor have written a lot of different pieces that all have included different elements of the Grotesque, which make their writings standout. The definition from Webster’s Dictionary of a Grotesque is a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness or caricature. This type of writing to some people could be otherwise known as “freaks.” But, even though these two writers both have used this style of writing, do they possibly agree on the same things when actually writing about a “freak?” O’Connor stated that the reason she writes about “freaks” is because