Revelation By Flannery Oconnor

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who is above the white trash in the waiting room and the black helpers on her farm. She is repulsively guilty of pride and obsessed with status and property She believes you have to "have certain things before you can know certain things"(344).
Her "revelation" is brought on by an unattractive, yet well educated young woman in a doctorıs office. Mary Grace ends up throwing a book at Mrs. Turpin because of her frustration with the womanıs ignorance. After Mrs. Turpin gets knocked upside the head, she looks at Mary Grace, expecting God to talk to her, and she is told that she is a "wart hog." Mrs. Turpin, still thinking this is a message from God, is quite confused by it. She doesnıt know where it came from, or its true meaning, so she searches herself for
it. She ends up, supposedly, "seeing the light" while hosing down the pigs in her pig parlor.
The first impression the reader gets of Mrs. Turpin is one of dominance. She is portrayed as "large" and "loud." She controls her ...

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would have wriggled and squirmed and begged and pleaded" and finally decided to be black(342). This paragraph shows how Mrs. Turpinıs prejudicial and bigoted nature controls her, even her thoughts on Jesus Christ. It shows just how

racist Mrs. Turpin actually is. Even though she would "choose" to be black, she claims she would have a hard time deciding, and she would only be black if she could be just like herself, only black. This shows that she is clearly class conscious and judgmental.

The passage where she distinguishes between all the classes is one of the most important passages in the story. It clearly shows the nature of Mrs. Turpin: an ignorant, uneducated ...

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