Durron Bailey
Southern pride
When you read a authors literature the reader can really tell what kind of person and what kind of background the person who wrote the literature had. O’Connor never said that she was Catholic or Southerner directly but you can tell that she was southern by the word choices that she made. The grandmother in the story uses terms toward blacks that was widely used in the south at the time that the story was written. The grandmother also uses southern terms in the story. She uses country phrases that the people of the north does not use. When the grandmother meet with the misfit in the woods she refer to God a lot, which lets me know that she had some type of faith. She did not say directly that she believed in any faith but she referred to God a number of times which showed me that she did believe in a God. One thing about southerners is that they are highly religious. Southerners might just be the most religious people in America and O Conner showed this in the grandmother in the story. I think O Conner was the grandmother in the story. The grandmother had the traits that I would say that I get from O Conner when I hear her literature. O Conner made it known that she has religious views in the story and she made it known by her slang that she was a true southerner.