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Deconstructing O'Connor's Grace Through Marxism, Aubri M. Devashrayee
Deconstructing O'Connor's Grace Through Marxism, Aubri M. Devashrayee
BYU English Symposium
The works of Flannery O’Connor deal greatly with the concepts of grace and religion and how they save the lost characters in her stories. O’Connor’s works are very violent, as well as religious. Story after story shows that God “terrifies before He can bless,” as Robert Drake asserts in his article “The Bleeding Stinking Mad Shadow of Jesus” (185). There are many instances where it is doubtful that grace has been received, and when it has been, the characters are distinctly worse off than they were before. This is prevalent in all of O’Connor’s short stories, and when looking through …