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Jerry-Rigged Salvation, John Sivils
Jerry-Rigged Salvation, John Sivils
English Class Publications
This paper examines the anagogical meaning of certain objects in three of Flannery O'Connor's stories, and then proposes how those meanings nuance narrative themes.
Money Buys Happiness: A Psychoanalytic Reading Of O'Connor, Hannah Wright
Money Buys Happiness: A Psychoanalytic Reading Of O'Connor, Hannah Wright
English Class Publications
In the year 1946 when Flannery O’Connor was about twenty-one years old, she and her mother Regina signed a document emancipating Flannery from her mother’s care so that she could attend the creative writing program at the University of Iowa (Release of Guardianship). In this determined show of independence, Flannery chose to move away from her mother and take responsibility for herself. However, this responsibility became too much for O’Connor to handle when she was diagnosed with lupus shortly after her twenty-sixth birthday. She was forced to move back in with her mother in Milledgeville and relinquish a great deal …