Everything That Rises Must Converge

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a good feel on who the characters are, which then leads to the climax of the story. Tension first arrives between Julian and his mother when Julian moves from sitting next to his mother, to a Negro man on the bus. O’Conner uses a good example on page 208, " He stared at her, making his eyes the eyes of a stranger. He felt his tension suddenly lift as if he had openly declared war on her." The reader feels the anger building in Julian’s mother beginning on page 209. It reads, "Her eyes retained their battered look. Her face seemed to be unnaturally red, as if her blood pressure had risen." Complications continue when are third and fourth characters are introduced; a Negro woman and her little son. On page 210 proves this evident, "…suddenly she had sickened at some awful confrontation…the woman, in a sense, swapped sons…his mother would not realize the symbolic significance of this, she would feel it…amusement showed plainly on his face." ...

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