Professor Shearer
English 103
6th April, 2012
Revelation
Flannery OConnors short story, Revelation, begins with small- m, small town farmers Mr. and Mrs. Turpins prognosticate to the doctors office. Mrs. Turpin grimly appraises the characters in the waiting room upon her entrance and in doing so, unwillingly reveals her judgmental, bigoted nature. The setting changes in the second part of the story as the Turpins return home. The inconclusive end to the first part where a sedated Mary Grace reveals Mrs. Turpins ugliness to herself rehearses the real ending when Mrs. Turpin experiences a good deal of divine revelation. The substance and meaning of both revelations depends on Mrs. Turpins complete emersion in her own warped macrocosm and her unawareness of her extreme bigotry, which OConnor carefully layers in strategical details and deploys various techniques to illustrate.
OConnor relies on irony to sheath Mrs. Turpins total obliviousness to her own bigotry. During their wait, a credo song played in the background, and Mrs. Turpin supplied the last line mentally, And wona these years I know Ill we-eara crown. (319). Mrs.
Turpin unthinkingly sings along to the gospel tune that cheers her in her Christianity and the affirmation of bliss ever after, without realizing that she nursed a long, hateful train of thought as she judged the new(prenominal) occupants of the room disdainfully just the moment before. The second time the background music entered into Mrs. Turpins consciousness, the contrast escalates between her self-assuring shoot to identify with the songs open-minded and upbeat inwardness and her now very evident tendency to negatively reexamination and reduce people to her criticism. At the start of the story she judged a man waiting to be somnolent or numb(p) or pretending to be so as not to get up and offer her his seat(318), this assessment morphed into her figure for the unnamed manâ€"the one who had been pretending to be asleep(318 ). Similarly, the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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