Ruby Turpin In Revelation By Flannery O Connor

Revelation, by Flannery O’Connor is a short story where the main character includes the self righteous character named Ruby Turpin. Revelation represents violence and Mrs.Turpin is the stories character who suffers from this. One day while Mrs.Turpin waits in the doctor's waiting room amongst others, a young girl by the name of Mary Grace, gives Ruby the verbal threat of telling her to go back to hell where she came from and calling her an old wart hog. Hurt by this, Ruby decides to leave. Later on throughout the day, her anger escalates from Mary Grace to now being angry at God. Ruby simply does not understand why this would happen to her, a good, and respectable civilian. She feels as if she did not deserve that horrible message. Ruby is furious and finds herself yelling at the man above, until suddenly she has a vision. This vision breaks down how Ruby saw herself, and how she perceived other people and the rest of the world surrounding her. In the ending of the story, Mrs.Turpin is given grace by God. The physical violence and verbal violence is what stimulates Mrs.Turpin’s spiritual connection. The violence found in this short story is not only damaging, but also seems to bring positivity with a spiritual purpose. In the waiting room, what Ruby describes to

What seems to confuse her the most was not the physical violence she encountered but the verbal violence she was a victim of. “I am not,” she said tearfully, “a warthog from hell.” (pg 24) But her denying it didn’t seem to help, Ruby did not believe she deserved to be attacked in that way, “She had been singled out for the message, though there was trash in the room to whom it might justly applied to.”(24) “There was a woman there who was neglecting her own child but she had been overlooked. The message had been given to Ruby Turpin, a respectable, hard-working, church-going