Flannery OConnors Revelation :: Flannery OConnor Revelation

Flannery OConnors background influenced her to write the short bill revealing. One important influence on the story is her southern upbringing. During her lifetime, Southerners were very prejudiced towards people of other races and lifestyles. They believed that people who were less gilded were inferior to them therefore, people were labeled as distinguishable things and placed into different social classes. The South provided OConnor with the images she needed for her characters. This can easily be determine in her short story Revelation. The characters in the story are set by physical characteristics and some are even identified with racial terms. The main character in the story is actually prejudiced and makes many statements using racial jargon. For example, Mrs. Turpin, the main character, refers to the higher class woman as well-dressed and pleasant. She also labels the teenage girl as ugly and the inadequate woman as white-trashy. When Mrs. Turpin converses with her bl ack workers, she often engages the word nigger in her thoughts. These characteristics she gives her characters definitely reveals the Southern lifestyle which the author, Flannery OConnor, was a part of. In accessory to her Southern upbringing, another influence on the story is Flannery OConnors distemper. She battled with the lupus disease which has caused her to use a degree of violence and anger to make her stories somewhat unhappy. The illness caused a sadness inside of Flannery OConnor, and that inner sadness flowed from her body to her radical through her pen. Although she was sick, OConnor still felt proud to be who she was. By comparison, Mrs. Turpin in Revelation has a good disposition nearly herself. She is far from perfect, thus far she is happy to be who she is. Perhaps the most important influence on the story is religion. OConnor was not only influenced by her own Catholic inheritance but by others as well. Like the other writers from France and England, she is curious well-nigh the actuality of sin and the effect that it has on the presence of mankind. Her stories and every characteristic about them was Flannery OConnors way of showing reality and qualities that are determiners of fate and destiny. No return which path her stories took her readers, they mostly ended up finding social truth. This background, in concert with a believable plot, convincing characterization, and important literary devices enables Flannery OConnor in Revelation to develop the theme that sometimes people must look further than the surface in order to understand the actions of others.