Greenleaf
In her story, ��, the author Flannery O�Conner shows us that people can sometimes blind their factual vision of the world through a mask of dreams, so that they would not be able to make a distinction between reality and their dreams of reality. O�Conner unveils this through the use of point of view , character, irony, and symbol. Being told through the limited omniscient point of view, this story takes place on a dairy farm, which was the only thing left to Mrs. May when her husband died. Mrs. May is a strong willed mother of two, who has many dreams and goals. She is �barely making ends meet�, as quoted from the story, through her dairy farm selling her milk. She lives at the ...
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Wesley, it is said that the only thing they did have in common was neither cared about what happened to the farm. Scofield was a business man, he sold insurance, not just any insurance but he sold insurance that only Negroes bought. He was known as the �policy man� by the black community. His mother was very disgruntled by this fact, knowing this he would loudly shout to company that he was the �best negroe- insurance salesman in the country�. Neither of the boys were married, but Scofield would tease Mrs. May by saying that when she died he would get married to a nice fat girl like Mrs. that would take over the farm. So upon hearing this, Mrs. May changed her will so that if the boys married they cold not leave the farm to their wives. Now Mrs. was a fat, dirty woman who did not take care of care of her family nor her house. She was one of the neighbors close by and the wife of her employee, Mr. . Mrs. would spend all of her time doing �prayer healing�. That is, taking ...
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