Placing Violence, Embodying Grace: Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person"
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1997
Published In
Studies In Short Fiction
Abstract
Bolton explores the relationship between vision and violence, what is suffered and what beheld, in Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person." The proliferation of violence in the story is motivated by the characters' failure of comprehension and communication.
Recommended Citation
Betsy Bolton.
(1997).
"Placing Violence, Embodying Grace: Flannery O'Connor's "Displaced Person"".
Studies In Short Fiction.
Volume 34,
Issue 1.
87-104.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/47