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The Gross and Grotesque in Flannnery O Connor
Title: The Gross and Grotesque in Flannnery O Connor
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2319 | Pages: 9.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Gross and Grotesque in Flannnery O Connor
Jessica Hendrickson
Dr. Chamberlain
Eng. 345
28 April 1999
The Gross and Grotesque in Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor is known for her regional, Christian, gothic, grotesque writing. We see all these elements in her short stories. Flannery O'Connor's fiction generates strong reactions because of her use of the gross and grotesque. According to Gilbert Muller, "Flannery O'Connor began writing about the grotesque because she could, and she readily admitted it in a letter to James Farham. O'Connor explained, …showed first 75 words of 2319 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2319 total…and to get her point across. Not only does she use the grotesque to astound, but she also uses it for its comical effect, and for the melodramatic effect. I do not feel she uses the grotesque, as many gothic writers do, for a purely evil or demonic effect. I believe she uses the grotesque in a religious sense to show how degraded her characters are, and how far they must go to achieve redemption.
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