This story appears to have been inspired by an article and a picture which appeared in the Milledgeville Union Recorder in August of 1951. The story deals with the appearance of General William J. Bush at a graduation ceremony at Georgia College. At that time, he was more than one […]
Read more Summary and Analysis “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”Summary and Analysis “The River”
In this story, which is one of O’Connor’s early works, her use of color imagery and her use of symbols are already well developed. The story is told from an omniscient point-of-view and covers a two-day span in the life of the main character, Harry Ashfield. Harry is about four […]
Read more Summary and Analysis “The River”Summary and Analysis “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
This story may well be one of O’Connor’s most humorous stories. Even though the story as it now stands appears to focus on the attempts of two equally unscrupulous characters to gain an advantage over the other, O’Connor, through the use of color imagery and somewhat obvious symbolism, manages to […]
Read more Summary and Analysis “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”Summary and Analysis “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
First published in 1953, following her permanent move to Andalusia, her mother’s dairy farm, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” illustrates many of the techniques and themes which were to characterize the typical O’Connor story. Since she was limited by her illness to short and infrequent trips away from […]
Read more Summary and Analysis “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”About O’Connor’s Short Stories
O’Connor appears to have developed, at a very early stage in her writing career, a sense of direction and purpose which allowed her to reject vigorously even proposed revisions suggested by Mr. Shelby, her contact at Rinehart. If changes were called for, she herself wanted to make them, and she […]
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