Summary Of Revelation By Flannery O Connor

“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” This quote from a British preacher Charles Spurgeon accurately con-veys Flannery O’Connor’s works that are considered mere dramatizations of her stated religious views. O’Connor’s stories such as “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Revelation” have au-thoritative narrators who analyze corrupt characters’ theological errors. She often focuses on characters’ grotesque path toward redemption. The term grotesque is defined as a work in which two separate modes are mixed and the result is a disturbing fiction wherein comic circumstances prelude horrific tragedy. O’Connor’s characters often experience redemption through personal pain which becomes a point of freedom in a continuing process of reformation. Her stories are set in the South where people like Mrs. Ruby Turpin and unnamed Grandmother show the illusion of sophistication through their faith, pride and manners, but in reality they live in a place shattered by violence, racism and oppression.
She always prays and thank God him for mak-ing her who she is. She believes that by just being a white person with a good life she already has a straight path to heaven. Her knowledge does not lean on God’s will, but on the racist reality where she lives in. She is a self-righteous person who loves to classify people by their social class, color and size. She considers herself a good Christian woman because she worships God and she believes God will judge her by her strong faith. It is not until Mary Grace becomes violent and says terrible things to her for her to begin questioning her personal beliefs and Christianity. At the end of the story, Mrs. Turpin realizes that she has been wrong in what she believed in and it is through knowing that she was wrong that she achieves