Literary Research and Short Story Analyses

“For the reading of literature ever to become a habit of pleasure, it must first be a discipline.”

–Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners, p. 128

The Geranium

The Barber

Wildcat

The Crop

The Turkey

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

A Late Encounter with the Enemy

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The River

A Circle in the Fire

The Displaced Person

A Temple of the Holy Ghost

The Artificial Nigger

Good Country People

Greenleaf

A View of the Woods

The Enduring Chill

The Comforts of Home

Everything That Rises Must Converge

The Partridge Festival

The Lame Shall Enter First

Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Revelation

Parker's Back

Judgement Day

“It is popular to suppose that anyone who can read the telephone book can read a short story or a novel.”

–Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners, p. 151