Comparing and contrasting Short Stories: "Good Country People" and "Revelation"

Mary Flannery O'connor wrote two short stories entitled "Good Country People" and "Revelation". O'conner displays similarities between the characters and the differences in the role they play at the end of their stories. Inside the two short stories are four characters, Joy and Manly Pointer from "Good country people" and Mary Grace and Mrs. Turpin from "Revelation". Consider the similarities between Joy and Mary Grace, the nineteen-year-old teenager with sever acne problems. O'conner describes both …

…tiers dried. Her eyes began to burn instead with wrath (O'conner, Revelation 453). Mrs. Turpin exposes her true identity. Mary Flannery O'Connor's' characters Joy and Mary Grace are compared as a fat, physically afflicted blue eyed female while Manly Pointer and Mrs. Turpin share similar identities that reveal themselves in the end. In contrast, her characters exhibit different endings to their stories. Works Cited O'conner, Flannery, Mary. Good Country People. 1955. ---Revelation. 1965. <Tab/>