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Author Flannery O¹Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She was born and raised Catholic, facts that defined her personal faith and helped shape her independent and ironic take on life. According to our textbook, "O¹Connor¹s fiction grapples ....

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.... She claims to treat blacks well, but she refers to them as "niggers" and clearly states that she is above them. Mrs. Turpin is grateful to be a "superior" white landowner who is above the white trash in the waiting room and the black helpers on her farm. She is repulsively guilty of pride and obsessed with status and property She believes you have to "have certain things before you can know certain things"(344). Her "revelation" is brought on by an unattractive, yet well educated young woman in a doctor¹s office. Mary Grace ends up throwing a book at Mrs. Turpin because of her frustration with the woman¹s ignorance. After Mrs. Turpin gets knocke ....