Flannery O"Connor's works are influenced by her real life. She was a deeply religious woman who also had a disease called Lupus, which actually ended her life at a young age of 39. I think she displayed her own traits in the stories she wrote in each story there was a main character who was either extremely religious or had some kind of medical ailment. "A ... them. She once said, "A short story should be long in depth and should give us an experience of meaning," (O"Connor, 633) which I think the story did. She doesn't go too far into explaining about her characters because she doesn't thin...

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