The Comforts Of Home Flannery O Connor

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The comforts of home flannery o connor. The comforts of home by flannery o connor 1965. Comforts of home will not knowingly link to any web resource that breaks these laws so do not ask for online versions of o connor s stories. 3 1209 words published.

The strength i sensed in flannery at our first meeting now had an incredible strain put on it. She was stricken with lupus on her journey home for christmas and spent nine months desperately ill in and out of emory hospital in atlanta. Giving the plot a definite ending but still leaving an air of mystery about things.

Today marks the beginning of a month long run of stories from the american south. The main character is thomas a history writer who lives with his mother. In the comforts of home the interloper is a 19 year old named sarah ham note the surname.

Found it my eye sarah ham shrieked and started for the pocketbook but thomas as if his arm were guided by his father caught it first and snatched the gun. The girl in a frenzy lunged at thomas s throat and would actually have caught him around the neck had not his mother thrown herself forward to protect her the comforts of home. Taken from everything that rises must converge the story is narrated in the third person and begins with the main protagonist thomas looking out the window of his bedroom at his mother returning home with a young girl called sarah ham or star drake.

That s a rich soil from which to draw but it s an easy for day one. In the comforts of home o connor labels sarah ham vixen thief and con artist as a moral moron although the term is crude by today s standards o connor s aim was to. O connor wrote two novels wise blood 1952 and the violent bear it away 1960 and two story collections a good man is hard to find 1955 and everything that rises must converge 1964.

There are many valuable books accessible in libraries or purchasable online. It was written in 1960 and published in 1965 in her short story collection everything that rises must converge a devout roman catholic o connor often used religious themes in her work. The comforts of home is a short story by flannery o connor.