An affluent banker systematically donates money to multiple charities, and therefore considers himself a giving person. After just auctioning off an $800 painting, he takes to walking the busy streets of Gainesville. While contemplating his generous conduct, he avoids a homeless man some ways away from him. Hoping to avoid the man, he hastily crosses the street to avoid the dirty beggar. Looking over his shoulder, he thinks I’m sick of his druggies, and proceeds on with his day. This is how Flannery O’Connor portrays the “holier than thou” concepts that are continuously presented throughout her writing. Her religion was deeply instilled in her and she portrays her love for it in her writings. O’Connor’s strongest experiences originated through …show more content…
O’Conner moved to Georgia after her father’s death in search of a new life, which resulted in the farming life. Consequently, this new farming environment was something she became passionate about. In the farm she has animals, some of them being birds. Having birds in the farm she had her favorite one the Peacock. She made religious connections with her surroundings one of them being her favorite animal, the Peacock. In the short story “The Displaced Person” Flannery O’Connor states, “‘Arrrrr, I see him!’ and stood up and looked out over the lawn where the peacock and the two hens were stepping at a strained attention, their long necks ruffled, the cock’s violent blue and the hen’s silver-green, glittering in the late afternoon soon.” (O’Connor 225). With this in mind, the meaning of the Peacock can then be analyzed in O’Connor’s point of view. There are two contradicting points of view that many people argued O’Connor was trying to portray. One of them is the eyes of the people in the Catholic church. While she looks out she spots the Peacock at a strained attention. Often times the people in the catholic church are constantly looking over others judging them with that similar strained attention. Later on in the same book “The Displaced Person” we see the same Peacock a few lines down, having a connection with Mrs. Shortley who seems to …show more content…
In her short story “Good Country People”, Mrs. Hopewell invites the Bible salesman to lunch in hopes of hooking up Hulga, a young girl with a prosthetic leg, together with the Bible salesman. They go on a date, and the Bible salesman tries to get Hulga to take off her prosthetic leg. Eventually she gives in and takes it off, having done that the Bible salesman runs off with it. Later on Hulga accuses him of being a Christian hypocrite. (O’Connor). Here it is seen O’Connor’s humor through Hulga, and the Bible salesman because who runs away with the prosthetic leg. Here we also see the recurring theme of hypocrisy through humor is shown. Hulga shouts at the Bible Salesman, and calls him a Hypocritical