The May boys, on the other hand, are single and still live at home. Mrs. Greenleaf's religion is also below Mrs. May. Her "prayer healing" so bothers Mrs. May, that she once told Mrs. Greenleaf "Jesus would be ashamed of you. He would tell you to get up from there this instant and go wash your children's clothes" (O"Connor 1444). The Greenleaf's bull kills Mrs. May at the end of the story (O"Connor 1440-1456).
Next to the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find, Mrs. Turpin in Revelation is the most arrogant. Mrs. Turpin and her husband Claud own land and are, therefore, above others. To fall asleep at night Mrs. Turpin names the classes of people: .
On the bottom of the heap were most colored people, not the kind she would have been if she had been one, but most of them; then next to them-not above, just away from-were the white-trash; then above them were the home-owners, and above them the home-and-land owners, to which she and Claud belonged. Above she and Claud were people with a lot of money and much bigger houses and much more land. (O"Connor 195-196) .
Mrs. Turpin frequently thanks Jesus that she wasn't born white trash or black or ugly. She is very racist and wants to make sure that blacks stay in their place. While in the waiting room of a hospital discussing her ideas and beliefs, Mrs. Turpin is told by a young girl, "Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog" (O"Connor 207). This bothers Mrs. Turpin after they leave the doctor's office. To try to make herself feel better, she converses with the blacks that she employs. Mrs. Turpin still can't get the comment out of her head. She starts to blame God for the girl's outburst. Mrs. Turpin doesn't die in the story, but all the way to the end, she is troubled by the comment that she is a hog (O"Connor 191-218).
Tanner is one of the few leading male characters in O"Connor's stories. Though he may be male, he is just like the other leading characters.