Revelation by Falnnery O’Connor published in 1964, the same year O’Connor died, explores societal hierarchy of the time period and what it would take for someone to become self aware of their judgmental thought process that made them hypocritical in the way they live their life.\u00a0 This exploration mainly pertains to the 1960’s hierarchy a lot of people thought was how everything just ‘worked’, but especially the ‘good christian women’ who thought they were the ones setting the example.\u00a0 It brought up a questioning of self awareness to the way people are living, and I say that in present tense to highlight the fact that it is still highly relevant today.<\/p>\n
The story begins with Mrs. Turpin and her experience in a Doctor’s office because Mr. Turpin was thought to have had an ulcer.\u00a0 There is a lot of symbolism with her being in a doctor’s office, where people get helped and healed, or atleast the beginning process of it begins.\u00a0 Then on top of the setting, is the people.\u00a0 There are about six other characters made relevant to the story, each of a different ‘class’as Mrs. Turpin noticed.\u00a0 One was white trash, then middle class, then upper middle class.\u00a0 There was a girl about the age of 18 reading a book about self help of some sort, and she was described to be a very ugly pitiful girl.\u00a0 Through this girl Mrs. Turpin finally comes to the conclusion that she is wrong in her line of thinking about who is ‘in charge’ of others.\u00a0 This girl is the standing figure of the ugly truth.\u00a0 The girl, Mary Grace, is shown to be quite knowledgable as she is reading and attending college. She also is forceful and her eyes are described to be “lit all of a sudden with a peculiar light, an unnatural light
\nlike night road signs give”.\u00a0 Which is also an indication that she is a driving force of directon that Mrs. Turpin needs to listen to.\u00a0 \u00a0Mary Grace attacks Mrs. Turpin by biting and telling her she is a hog.\u00a0 Hogs, well specifically wart hogs, is symbolism of vigilence and awareness.\u00a0 These virtues are exactly what Mrs. Turpin needs more of, and in the end she recieves it through them.<\/p>\n
By the end of the story, Mrs. Turpin has had a revelation to her life and how she was wrong.\u00a0 She has a vision from God, and in that vision she saw all of the people she previously thought of as below her all walking up to Heaven.\u00a0 They were dancing and singing while she and others alike her were all walking behind them.\u00a0 She realized in this vision that they are equal to her, and she has nothing ‘over’ them.\u00a0 God thinks equally of them and her and everyone.\u00a0 She proceedas to walk back toward her house while thinking of what she saw.<\/p>\n
I enjoyed this story for the complexity of it, you could either read it and go ‘what the heck’ or you could look deeper and see all of the layers put into the characters and ther growth and progression of each of them.\u00a0 Now, i wish we could see more od Mrs. Turpin after her revelation to see what it is exactly that she changes, but overall it is a well written story i would recommend.<\/p>\n
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