The Works of O'Connor and Welty

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This paper provides the reader with a short synopsis of both "Good Country People" and "A Worn Path" by Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty. The author details the similarities in both works, how they present us with a view of the world in which human relationships fail either because they have never been attempted or because they prove in the end to be too frail for the accumulated sorrows of a lifetime.

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"Flannery O'Connor's story "Good Country People" and Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" are both stories about the ways in which people connect to each other and the poor job that they generally make of the process. While each of these stories seems at first to be about people's attempting to communicate with each other, by the end of both of these stories what we are left with is an impression of the ways in which people are isolated from each other both by their preconceptions of what certain kind of people should be like as well as by the way life's tragedies accumulate over time to create barriers between people that are impermeable even to far more genuine attempts to communicate than we see in these stories."

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