This author responded “My tone is not meant to be obnoxious. I am in a state of shock” to an English professor who argued that her character of the Misfit was imaginary. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Southern Gothic author of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”
ANSWER: Flannery O’Connor
[10h] Paul Elie accused O’Connor of a “habit of bigotry,” citing this story in which Mary Grace throws a book at an old woman in a doctor’s waiting room. While dying from lupus, O’Connor wrote letters signed by the racist Mrs. Turpin from this story.
ANSWER: “Revelation”
[10m] In this O’Connor story that titles the collection it appears in, Julian rides the bus to the YMCA with his bigoted mother, who is attacked after she gives a penny to a young Black boy.
ANSWER: “Everything that Rises Must Converge”
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Short Fiction> ~20853~ <Editor: Chandler West>