Comparing The Grandmother In A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Revelation

This detail of the setting foreshadows the fact that there is something religious and spiritual going to happen to a character. Similarly to getting help through Christ, people going into a doctor’s office sick will find themselves cured on the way out. The other main setting of the story is the pig parlor. Mrs. Turpin expresses pride in her hogs, and is rather boastful of their clean, refined dwelling. It is like she displays more interest and worry for her hogs over other human beings. Mrs. Turpin being proud of her pig parlor is symbolic of her own pride in general. Pride is what definitely ails her during the story. It is, afterall, one of the seven deadly sins. Her revelation is quite becoming that it happens right outside the pig parlor, the place where she bragged on. Another reason the pig parlor setting is suitable is that a girl, Mary Grace, called Mrs. Turpin a warthog from hell. Another setting detail is that it seems like it is in the South during the mid 1900s. Around this time, many Southerners were discriminatory against people of color and different lifestyles, again can be shown through Mrs. Turpin. O’Connor’s use of setting is symbolic to many aspects of the

Violence has raised against the both of them and at some point in time they tend to question their faith. In the story, “A Good Man is hard to find”, we meet Grandma who is a lady that cares more about her appearance as a lady more than anything and who talks a lot. She never stops talking about her son Bailey or giving people her opinion whether you asked for it or not. She is manipulative, self-centered, and hypocritical, but she is a saint compared to Mrs. Turpin. In the Story, “Revelation”, Ms. Turpin also talks a whole lot. For example, in the doctor’s office, she had quite a bit to say about African Americans, and how she is not that charitable. She finds another woman with ideas similar to her own and they start to interact in extensive conversation. Although, both women see themselves as Christian women they sometimes don’t even act like it. Most of Flannery O’Connor’s stories often deal with religious themes. Strongly present in both stories and here are similarities between the two women. Neither woman is able to understand religion in her own life. It is not until grandmother is faced with death the hands of the misfit that she takes a careful look at her faith. It can also be classified as her connection with the world. She basically leads her family in the wrong direction, which lead them straight into an accident and they needed help. Grandma was based on looking like a lady, even if

Finally, a young lady sees through the hypocrisy and rages against Mrs. Turpin, whispering, “"Go back to hell where you belong, you old wart hog." This comment pierces Mrs. Turpin’s very soul and makes her question her way of life. Faced with the concept that she is not the respectable woman she thinks she is, Mrs. Turpin questions God and His plans for her life.

As soon as the story begins, O’Connor introduces readers to the main character, Mrs. Ruby Turpin. She presents Mrs. Turpin’s racist and classist beliefs with no censor. Mrs. Turpin visiting the doctor with her husband because he has an ulcer on his leg. She entered the doctor’s office and immediately began mentally separating the patients in a classist manner. There was one lady at the doctor who Mrs. Turpin described as pleasant because she was well-dressed. The pleasant lady had a college-aged daughter with her who readers later discover is named Mary Grace. Mrs. Turpin described Mary Grace as fat and ugly. There was also a family that consisted of a mother, a grandmother, and a little boy. Mrs. Turpin described the family as white-trash.

The story begins in a doctor’s office and O’Connor introduces Ruby Turpin as a large woman who makes the office appear smaller than it actually is. This attribute allows the reader to recognize that not only is Turpin a large woman, but her ego is immense. The reader first notices that Mrs. Turpin is a condescending woman when she observes the ugly girl with acne. Turpin states that she feels sympathy for the teenager because she has such bad skin. This statement reveals that Mrs. Turpin values appearance more than anything, and just because the girl is not pretty, Mrs. Turpin believes her own life is better than the girl’s. Mrs. Turpin can be characterized as judgmental when “she could tell by the way they sat—kind of vacant and white-trashy, as if they would sit there until Doomsday if nobody called and told them to get up” (475). Mrs. Turpin views people very crucially and if they do not meet her standards, then she instantly places herself above them. Mrs. Turpin is excessively critical towards the white trash woman because she considers herself more successful than the woman, and when Turpin notices the woman’s shoes, she is not surprised that she is wearing slippers. In addition, Mrs. Turpin reacts to the

Being that it is a change intended for the reader to feel some type of compassion or minor sympathy for the grandmother even after she sets the family off track and gets on the wrong side of a national fugitive. In reality this change was one to be expected of any human facing a life threatening situation. Even at that we can still see the original ways of the grandmother glistening through. A great example of this would be when she says to the killers face, “I know you wouldn't shoot a lady!”(20). This statement is one that can prove her as one that cannot let down her pride even at times where it is life or death.

As Mrs. Turpin occupies herself all night with “the question of who she would have chosen to be if she couldn't have been herself. If Jesus had said to her before he made her, ‘There's only two places available for you. You can either be a nigger or white trash," (Flannery), she demonstrates the racism that goes on in the story. Additionally, Mrs. Turpin highlights the theme of religion as she contradicts her Catholic beliefs with her hypocrisy. Claiming that she is a firm believer of the Bible, Turpin disobeys the Biblical verse “Do not judge so that you will not be judge (Catholic Edition, Matthew. 7.11) as she constantly ranks individuals by their social class. Ultimately, not only does the author supports these themes through historical context and emotional appeals but also through her religious

In "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor, Mrs. Turpin plays the protagonist. Mrs. Turpin is a very judgemental Southern white women who judges by the exterior of all people. Mrs. Turpin acts as if she is saved until she is revealed her own ugly truths. Flannery O'Connor was raised before Civil Rights Movement, which is shown throughout the story in the way Mrs. Turpin judges others. Thus, the life Flannery O'Connor lived has a strong connection to the story.

Flannery O’Connor recognizes how the arrogant attitude of society has begun to damage the reputation of the Christian community and emphasizes this problem in her story “Revelation”. In the short story, Mrs. Turpin experiences several critical character defining moments giving her the opportunity to reflect on her distorted perspective of society. Mrs. Turpin believes she is highly respected and admired. While in reality, she is a pretentious lady who has never liked to admit when she is wrong. Through her physical description, condescending remarks and thoughts, and her revelation with God, O’Connor illustrates Mrs. Turpin’s hypocritical morals.

In “Revelation “O’Connor. (1965), the reader is introduced to a waiting room of a clinic through the eyes of Mrs.Turpin. Mrs.Turpin seems to have set views about race and social status (p. 3). Her prejudice influences how she looks at everything. She is religious and is thankful to God for all the blessings she has in her life. Her desire is to help those in need (p. 8).

e. As Mrs. Turpin thinks about the uselessness of helping people like the white-trash woman, Mary Grace's "eyes fixed like two drills” on her and that there was “something urgent behind them" (480).

She believes herself to be superior due to her racial status and wealth. Mrs. Turpin shouts insincere alleluias thanking God for “making everything the way it is! It could have been different!” (O’Connor 499) In order to make Mrs. Turpin aware of her self-righteous, bigoted disposition, O’Connor introduces a traumatic event in which a girl, disgusted by Mrs. Turpin’s demeanor, throws a book at Mrs. Turpin’s face and condemns her saying “Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog.” (O’Connor 500). This single action has such an impact on Mrs. Turpin that she begins to doubt her superiority and questions “how am I a hog and me both? How am I saved and from hell too?” (O’Connor 506) In the end, Mrs. Turpin has a vision of hell, her ultimate demise if she continues a path of a sinful disposition. Once again, O’Connor has used a solitary character to abruptly approach a character’s conceited nature, and introduce enlightenment.

Often times, society is plagued with flaws that have become normal and justified in the eyes of its inhabitants. The Flannery O'Connor short story, “Revelation,” showcases this concept and how it can influence a person. The story follows Mrs. Turpin, a self-involved individual who experiences an event which makes her question her faith. Through the course of the story, various themes are and messages are conveyed to the readers through the author’s writing style. O’Connor establishes her credibility through her religious background, utilizes historically accurate scenarios to incorporate logic, and appeals emotionally through imagery to support the significant themes of racism, human equality, and God’s judgement within “Revelation.”

In her story Revelation, which is about final judgment, O’Connor introduces a modern Christian take on Heaven and Hell, and shows how everyone is unified after death, and will eventually go to heaven. Revelation is centered around Mrs. Turpin, a woman is obsessed with judging people, ironically in purgatory. She is waiting to be judged a final time by Jesus in a waiting room for a doctor’s office. She can’t stop judging everyone in the room, and so eventually she is judged by a fat, ugly girl named Mary Grace, who is in fact, Jesus. She is judged harshly by Jesus and told “Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog” (O’Connor 21). This causes her to deny what was said about her, but also re-evaluate her actions. After what is said about Mrs. Turpin in the beginning of the story, the reader can understand why Mrs. Turpin was judged so harshly by Jesus:

Turpin. Mrs. Trupin is not a likeable person. Turpin said what she feels the right way to judge people. She would always look at the what people wore, looked like, and skin color. She was very racists and consistently said slurs that were not right. Turpin faith was strong but knew that God didn’t like what she was saying to these people. It was very surprising that Trupins revelation was the ugly girl. I understand why it would be the ugly girl there was so much that happened before that when I started to read I knew it was the ugly girl. As I was reading I came to this part of the story that really spoke out “There was no doubt in her mind that the girl did know her, knew her in some intense and personal way, beyond time and place and condition” (O’Connor 422). This was a great part because this was God way of telling her that this was her revelation. She was not just showing God who she was but that she was going to show the ugly girl what she could do to make it better. The ugly girl knew that this was all part of her plan to make up for all that she has done show the ugly girl reacted carelessly by tell her this “Go back to hell where you came from, your old wart hog” (O’Connor 422). She took it hard, she had finally felt how it feel to be ridicule and named in the wrong way. Now, she didn’t understand why God would do this to her. Her point of view changed she how it felt and