She has created a style of writing that exists on both literary and religious grounds, and excels in doing justice to both. ... O'Connor's evident discontentment with society at the time has frequently been attributed to her Catholic religion, her studies in social science, and the fact that the lifestyles of the elite southern whites were diminishing. ... Her written thoughts on the subject disclose that she had devised a complete literary philosophy committed to blending the two into a distinctly fused energy to "prove the truth of the Faith." ... As for the excessive applicatio...

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The  doppelganger  is a literary technique in which a double (or look-alike) appears in the story as a representation of evil. 2. The doppelganger technique is a literary technique by which a character is duplicated (usually in the form of an alter ego, though sometimes as a ghostly counterpart) or divided into two distinct, usually opposite personalities. ... More than a regular story, the latter one, is a study of the unconscious mind, and in some critic's opinion is an early version of Freud's theory of the subconscious. ... However, it does not refer to all impulses, but to t...

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• Grade Level: High School

Guided by the will of knowledge and of making sense, understanding is our basic expectation when reading the short-story. ... His interest in details blends very well to his passion for studying the inner mechanics of human psychology. ... It renders the idea of perspectivism, the fact of story - telling, which undermine the literary well-known conventions. ...

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