While O'Connor's mentality seems to be futile and interspersed with senseless brutality, in actuality, her writing is full of symbolism and meaning that is concealed beneath a flawless narrative approach. ... (Galloway) O"Connor's deep acknowledgment of her family's Southern legacy plays a strong role in the attitudes of her short stories. ... What originally look like irrelevant deaths inevitably turn out to be prominent depictions of God's righteousness. ... To capture the attention of a world in which traditional scriptural truths no longer have meaning was Flan...

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Bearing in mind the fact that "the Prologue" plays the most important part in the organization of the text, we have to read it very carefully. ... So he was highly interested in the relationship between "the local" and "the alien", in the intersubjective relationship between "the foreigner intruding in", and "the local". ... The short-story is based on a paradox: the gap between the factual level of the text, the way the governess acts, her words and her attitudes, and the textual level, what is rendered, implied by the text. ... It renders the unfolding of a past, which implies the distance b...

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