And as for Mrs. Turpin in the story "Revelation", she is portrayed as seeing herself as a good Christian woman, but through the events of the day she finds herself confronted with her "real self" and realizes her faults in being a so-called good Christian woman. .
Flannery O"Connor used grotesque themes and situations to make her stories differentiated from the common story. Many of her works are classified as "Southern Gothic" because of her strong feelings and strong use of moral and physical themes. Critic Dorthy Walters points out that O"Connor uses such grotesque implications so that the reader has the image that the world can and does have hurtful and even shameful alterations (29). .
In the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", O"Connor labels the Misfit as a demented man who said and believed "It's no real pleasure in life"(133). The Misfit was a character, who, while he believed in Jesus, also said "Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with me except He hadn't committed any crime and they could prove I had committed one because they had papers on me"(131). This is why the Misfit was so demented and why he caused others, to rethink God and why He would allow this to happen to someone who believes in Him, and why someone who believes in Him could do such a thing. In "Good Country People", Hulga is a thirty-two year old woman with a wooden leg and no respect for the common person. O'Connor's use of grotesque is through Hulga's deformity. She uses the wooden leg at the end story to show how the leg is not Hulga's true deformity. Her true deformity is her willingness to believe in "nothing" without really knowing what "nothing" is, which brings her to her ultimate failure and end. As the Bible Salesman leaves Hulga, he tells her "you aint so smart. I've been believing in nothing since I was born!(291)" In "Revelation", O"Connor uses the young girls appearance as her grotesque theme "the poor girls face was blue with acne"(490), and she proceeds to refer to her as "the ugly girl" throughout the story.