In his article in The South Central Bulletin, Slattery notes that it is this very attitude that is "the central conflict between Parker and his wife." ... Throughout his entire life, O.E. had been a dissatisfied man. ... Slattery describes "Parker's Back" "as a story that "explores how an individual learns to focus his moral vision on the visible creation in order to apprehend, if even for an instant, the invisible presence of the Creator by means of grace."" How a person accepts God is not directly reflected as the way God accepts man. Sarah Ruth lived her life ridiculing man for everyda...

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