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The story "Revelation" first introduces itself as a negative outlook on the Southerners way of life. The characters [Mrs. Turpin, "the pleasant lady," the "white trash," and the disturbed/silent Mary Grace] speak of African Americans as being a lower class and useful only when manual labor is involved. Later, however, the story twist into a belief that some people are worthy of God's (and everyone else's) praise simply because of their classification in the eyes of the people surrounding their everyday lives. After her alteration with Mary Grace, Mrs. Turpin learns that those who are last shall be first, and that all people are equal in the eyes of God. The story opens with Ruby Turpin entering a doctor's waiting room with her husband Claud who has been kicked by a cow. As she and Claud wait, she takes hard stock of the other people in the room. There was some white trash, a "red- headed youngish woman" who was not white trash, just common, a well-dressed, pl
In a final vision, something akin to the great medieval leveling of death and damnation and salvation forces itself upon her. O'Connor writes, "a visionary lights settled in her eyes" (451). In painful clarity, Ruby Turpin recognizes, as one critic put it, "the inadequacy of her respectability and the shallowness of her values." The vision shows her how--considered by God no more worthy than white-trash, or niggers, or freaks--she can be both a wart hog before the judgment seat of God and saved, too. Throughout the story, Mrs. Turpin proceeds to speak about how "good" she is compared to everyone else. Her classifications and shrewd remarks almost have her convinced that she is God-like. She labels herself as smart, successful, religious, and as having a good disposition in everything she does. Mrs. Turpin's revelation turned out to be nothing more than the realization that all people, in the eyes of God, are equal. easant looking lady, and her daughter,
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Approximate Word count = 651
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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