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Summary Of Revelation By Flannery O Connor

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Revelation” is a short story written by Flannery O’Connor. Flannery O’Connor was a very religious person; she went to church every day and had very bad health issues. Flannery is considered a southern gothic because of her dark sense of humor in all of her work. Her story “Revelation” flows with her Christian like attitude as in the way she talks about Jesus in her story. She also made the character Mrs. Turpin very religious. Her story flows in a way that she might feel with her own life. This character Mrs. Turpin is also very rude, judgmental, and racist it seems. Mrs. Turpin goes through changes and realizes the way she thinks is right is and has been wrong for a long time. “Revelation” is a well fit name for this short story because …show more content…

Turpin goes through is her being conceited. Mrs. Turpin feels that she is in and upper class and should be before everyone. She is not conceited about her looks or the amount of possessions or money but instead the way she thinks she is classed by Jesus. She sees in her vision that every other person is ascending to heaven before her including as she said “the niggers,” and the “white trash” people. When Mrs. Turpin sees this she thinks about how Jesus treats everyone equal and there are no classifications on people. She talks about how she was and if Jesus wanted her to be like everyone else why didn’t she make her like them. Mrs. Turpin says “If you like trash better, go get yourself some trash then.” “You could have made me trash. Or a nigger. If trash is what you wanted why didn’t you make me trash?” She also says “I could quit working and take it easy and be filthy.” She is starting to see that Jesus didn’t just create her that way to be the way she was. Jesus was trying to show her that everyone is created equal and she is not his number one subject and she sees that is the case and she realizes she is just like everyone else. She is not necessarily changing the way she is conceited about her looks or her possessions but she is conceited about the way she thinks she is number one to

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