O'Connor, Faith and Nihilism

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The paper explores the nature of belief in O'Connor's fiction, particularly as it pertains to the role of perception in her stories. The paper focuses on three of her short stories; "Good Country People," "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and "Everything That Rises Must Converge."

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"The southern American writer Flannery O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925. She was Edward and Regina O'Connor's only child. Her father would pass away when she was only fifteen from lupus, the same disease that would also kill her at the age of thirty-nine. Her father's death would have a profound effect on the budding writer; she almost never spoke of her father for the rest of her life, so devastated was she by his early death."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Charters, Anne, and Samuel Charters, eds. Literature and its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York: Bedford/St Martins, 2007.
• Gordon, Sarah, ed. Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius. Athens, GA: Hill Street Press, 2000.
• O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge," n.d. Retrieved Nov. 17, 2007 from http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/oconnorconverge.html.
• O'Connor, Flannery. Mystery and Manners. Fitzgerald, Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, eds. London: Faber and Faber, 1972.
• O'Connor, Flannery. "Good Country People," 1955a. Charters, Anne, and Samuel Charters, eds. Literature and its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York: Bedford/St Martins, 2007, pp. 431-445.

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