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April 20, 2006

A Stroke of Good Fortune?

"All those children were what did her mother in-eight of them: two born dead, one died in the first year, one crushed under a mowing machine. Her mother had got deader with every one of them."

O'Connor's preoccupancy with death easily shows through here, but it seems really interesting that in this passage she doesn't seem to have the same disposition towards it as we have previously seen. In class we've discussed how she usually portrays death as something which is not neccessarily bad, and occasionally even something to be strived for, but in this case the character she creates seems to view death as something to be loathed, and perhaps even feared. She even goes so far as to say that her mother only got deader and deader out of "the purest of downright ignorance."
This blog isn't as much a commentary like my usual ones are, but more of a question. Any ideas anyone has on whether or not O'Connor really portrays death differently in this story, or why she does would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ;-)

Posted by PaulCrossman at April 20, 2006 05:31 AM

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