'The Displaced Person By Flannery O' Connor

The Displaced Person Flannery O’Connor puts us in the South on a farm, during the second world war, that is barely making ends meet. It is owned and ran by one of the antagonists, Mrs. McIntyre, who cares little for her workers and only her pocket book. The workers are stuck in their living condition because she only pays them enough to barely get by. It is written in the view of the protagonist Mr. Guizac, an immigrant that she has agreed to hire to work on the farm and bring to America from Poland with the help of Father Flynn. The plot of this story would be that of The Guizac’s leaving their homeland to try and escape war and have a better life for their family, and the reality is they end up having to deal with misconceptions, being stereotyped. “Over here is more advanced than where they come from.” (O’Conner pg.502)” You reckon he can drive a tractor when he can’t speak English?” (O’Connor pg.504) “You reckon they’ll know what colors even are?” (O’Connor pg.499) They are different and they fear that difference which feeds their distrust of the newcomers. It does not help that another antagonist, Mr. Shortley, whom is lazy along with his wife help to spread fear with

From the attitudes of the other workers of the farm to even that of Mrs. Mcintyre whom at the beginning made the reader think she was hiring the Guizac out of Christian duty; to her later mistrust and disdaining attitude. “He don’t look that smart,” Mrs. Shortley said, “—kind of foolish.” (O’Connor pg. 504) She taps into what every person has caught themselves doing when they encounter someone that does not fit into “their” perspective of what normal is. She chose to write the words as she felt her characters would talk; which makes spellchecker mad, but gives them individual personalities and the reader some intuitive insight to their