O'Connor, ''The Life You Save May Be Your Own'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)
"people don't care how they lie. Maybe the best I can tell you is, I'm a man"
I love that line from the story because it holds a well of truth. People can tell you anything now a days, and you wouldn't be none the wiser, because how can you tell if they're lying. A great deal in this world rely's on trust and faith in others.
Comments (4)
Sad, but true. Trust is key, but sometimes misplaced. There's no way to truly tell.
Posted by Jennifer Prex | March 25, 2007 1:42 PM
Posted on March 25, 2007 13:42
This is true and disappointing at the same time. Someone can tell you something and you really don't know if it is true or not. I also agree that a lot of information said has to be trusted and you have to have faith in that person. I like how you made this quote relevant to society today.
Posted by Derek Tickle | March 25, 2007 9:27 PM
Posted on March 25, 2007 21:27
An interesting thing about lying is that it really seems to be a theme in a lot of O'Connor's (doesn't her name look so funny with two apostrophes in it?...I wonder what Tuss would say?) stories. It just seems like a lot of the characters in her stories lie. Of course, that matches well with her title story "A Good Man is Hard to Find". When writers compile works for a collection of shorter works, especially stories, do they specifically write the stories to go together in a collection and think about that as they write, or do they later decide which stories should go together for a collection? That is just something I have always wondered.
Posted by Lorin | March 26, 2007 1:56 AM
Posted on March 26, 2007 01:56
I cannot say whether writers consciously compile stories together because they all share a common theme. But it would makes sense to me if they did or at least stories that have some relevance to each other. As for Flannery O'Connor, I couldn't say but what you noticed, that lying is a re-curring theme certainly makes it seem that way.
Posted by Jara White | March 27, 2007 11:43 AM
Posted on March 27, 2007 11:43