LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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the rural south
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the urban south
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the rural north
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the urban north
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Detailed explanation-1: -O’Connor’s stories are set in the modern South, more often in the country than in the city. Many are placed on farms similar to the one on which she herself lived. The main character is often a middle-aged, middle-class w oman living on her own, with responsibility for a farm.
Detailed explanation-2: -O’Connor’s style is best described as Southern Gothic, which is a style of literature that has flawed and disturbed characters in sinister situations, usually taking place in the southern United States. Her writing explores religion and morality, and often how the two horrifically collide.
Detailed explanation-3: -“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.” “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.