C/C Revalation and The Sky is Gray

Both writers set their confrontational moments in offices. O’Connors’ “Revelation” brings us into a small waiting room. The office is filled with a variety of white people,

rich, poor, white trash types, old and young. Ruby Turpin, the seemingly religious spiritual person, heavy, but with a so called good disposition is there with her husband Claud, who has been kicked in the leg by a cow. Across the room is Mary Grace, a young girl of eighteen or nineteen, fat and ugly with a face full of acne. Mary Grace, while waiting to see the doctor, reads a thick blue book named Human Development, maybe, trying to figure out why her looks are the way they are. Mary Grace is there with her mother, a very pleasant, stylish lady. Gaines “The Sky is Gray” brings also the reader into another waiting room, but this one is a dentist’s office, filled with black people sitting everywhere, mostly poor. The office has a variety of people, a very young child with his mother, an older gentleman wearing a black suit looking like a “preacher”, and like in “Revelation” a young man looking like a college student, reading a book. In the background you hear someone hollering, most likely from the pain of having a tooth pulled.

In “Revelation,” right from the beginning, Mary Graces’s mother and Ruby hit it off, talking about a variety of topics from how hard it is to get “niggers” to pick your cotton to the weather. During these conversations, Ruby seems to classify people, because she and Claud owned a home with land, she thought they were better then what she considered, white tras

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