Flannery O’Connor is a Catholic writer who has a very interesting style of writing. Instead of the stereotypical Catholic writer who is overly-Catholic and forces the idea that there is only one God into the reader’s head, she instead wrote about real-life, and quite common, scenarios and incorporated her ideas of faith into these stories. Her stories express that we live in a broken world that is in need of hope, faith, and love. In You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead, Flannery O’Connor puts forth her intention, which I believe is trying to spread the message of God through her stories, but subtly. In her prayer journal, O’Connor makes it evident that she wants a better relationship with God. She writes about her struggles of maintaining her relationship with God and what she wants God to do for her. One of my favorite quotes from her journal is “[d]on’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story–just like the typewriter was mine.” Not only is it a well written petition, but it accurately represents the intention of her stories. In the story You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead, O’Connor tells about a boy named …show more content…
Her stories represent scenarios that occur more and more each day, such as the ones in the story A Good Man Is Hard To Find. The story consists of an old woman who is telling a serial killer named “the Misfit” that he should try to re-find Jesus, as he mentioned that he once was a gospel singer. Well, the plan of trying to help him didn’t exactly work, because when the Misfit thought he heard enough, he shot her. This is an example of today’s world, and even quite possibly how it was back when Flannery O’Connor wrote this story. We live in a world full of killing and people committing crimes left and right, and I think that’s something to which O’Connor is trying to bring