Flannery O’Connor’s Revelation Make up blog

The piece was pretty good I like the conflict between social classes. There is also the stereotype of “White Trash” that I find interesting. Especially considering that I live in a trailer park, which is stereotypically a white trash place to live. So it makes me question Mrs. Turpin’s ideals and assumptions of the “white trash” characters. I honestly could not believe that whole thing about the manners. There are people who all the money and “class” who are just as rude as the “white trash” in the story. I agree that the child should have moved over on the couch, but sometimes kids have a mind of their own.

Mary Grace was an interesting character and she was defiantly making Mrs. Turpin uncomfortable with her scowls. She went nuts on Turpin but I think it is because she had the ability to see how fake Mrs. Turpin was being. This ability may have come from how her mother behaves because her mother told Mrs. Turpin that she wasn’t fat, so I think her mother was fake also. With that being said maybe that is why she lost it on Mrs. Turpin because she can’t direct her anger at her mother, so maybe she turned her anger toward her mother on to Mrs. Turpin. It’s just a thought.

I liked the little comments that Mrs. Turpin was thinking, but didn’t dare to speak. “Next to the ugly girl was the child, still in the same position, and next to him was a thin leathery old woman in a cotton print dress. She and Claud had three sacks of chicken feed in their pump house that was in the same print.” I like this one especially because it demonstrates how she looks down on the woman because she has to make her own dress from chicken feed bags and then from their she assumes (correctly) that the little snot nosed boy belongs with this woman based on her clothes.
The nurse was another description I enjoyed was the nurse. She is chewing gum, wearing red heels, and has blonde hair this makes her seems kind of trampy at least to me.

The pigs were an interesting detail in the piece. The comparison between the ways Mrs. Turpin treats her pigs and the “white trash” lady treats them. Mrs. Turpin treats them almost like humans cleaning them every night not allowing them to touch the mud. The white trash lady treats them like animals allowing them to wallow in the mud and not cleaning them at all. Then at the end you see Mrs. Turpin looking at them describing them as “idiot children” then toward the end she sees their human like compassion for each other.