... see people as created equal by God. Instead, she has an order of classes that she often thinks about. Ruby looks down upon those whom are below her "class". As Joyce Carol Oates puts it " Mrs. Turpin cannot conceive of human beings except in terms of class, and is obsessed by a need to continually categorize others and speculate upon her position in regard ... Parable: Four Conversion Stories by Flannery O"Connor." American Literature 55:1 (March 1983). Rpt. In The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Micheal Meyer. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. 358-359. Oates, Joyce Ca...

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