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O'Connor, The Displaced Person: Peacock symbolism

O'Connor, '''The Displaced Person'' -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)

... his head on the long blue reed-like neck was drawn back as if his attention were fixed in the distance on something no one else could see.

O'Connor seems to use peacocks in both "Good Country People" and "The Displaced Person" as a symbol of individualism and perhaps even wisdom.

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