“Visitors to our place, instead of being barked at by dogs rushing from under the porch, are squalled at by peacocks whose blue necks and crested heads pop up from behind tufts of grass, peer out of bushes, and crane downward from the roof of the house, where the bird has flown, perhaps for the view.”

–Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners, p. 12

Honors Capstone Research Project by Vanessa Fickes

under the advisement of Dr. Gary Richards

Department of English and Linguistics

University of Mary Washington

Fredericksburg, Virginia