![]() Turpin thinks about “a colored dentist in town who had two red Lincoln’s and a swimming pool and a farm with registered whiteface cattle on it.” As far as Mrs. ![]() The story is implied to take place during Flannery’s time in the early 1960s, as Mrs. ![]() Mary Grace, the daughter of the stylish lady, is described as a fat eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl whose face was “blue with acne” and wore “Girl Scout shoes and heavy socks.” Ruby condescends to make conversation with a stylish lady who’s sitting nearby. The office is crowded with a lot of patients. This is shown as she sits with her husband in a waiting room in the doctor’s office. Like the Pharisees, Ruby Turpin has a very high opinion of herself and a low opinion of everyone else. Only in this story, Flannery O’Connor takes us into the mental experience of one of those people Jesus condemned, such as the Pharisees and other people so full of pride they forget how to love people. The reason I call “Revelation” a parable is because it reminds me of the biblical parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Subscribe to Catholic Reads & Get Books like this at least 50% to FREE While “A Good Man is Hard to Find” may be the most well-known story from Flannery O’Connor, I think “Revelation” is my favorite as it’s the most straightforward parable. ![]() It was published in 1965, one year after she died. “Revelation” is one of the last short stories that Flannery O’Connor wrote. ![]()
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