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May 10, 2006
Nice Try, BigLucynell.
O'Connor, ''The Life You Save May Be Your Own'' -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"...now she was pulling the cherries off the hat one by one."
Lucynell's behavior here is indicative of an O'Connor theme wherein no matter how hard one may try to hide a flaw, it will always come out. Lucynell's mother may have dolled her up to look like an ordinary girl having an ordinary wedding day, but as desperately as Big Lucynell might want Little Lucynell to be like all the other girls, Little Lucynell just can't be stuffed in the mold. She may have looked like all the other girls for a short time, but all the trappings of fancy dress and fancy hat can't conceal for long that there is just something not quite normal about her. O'Connor comes back to this theme back and again - most strongly with The Misfit, but at other times too. No matter how hard anyone may work to superficially conceal it - with manners, religion, dress - a person's inherent flaw will always expose itself.
Posted by MeganRitter at May 10, 2006 03:57 PM