Flannery O'Connor: la violencia y la gracia

Abstract

In this article I read some of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories from the perspective of the so-called “American Gothic”. My purpose is to explore the subject of violence which is central in the narrative of this author together with her idea of grace, in the Christian sense of the term. O’Connor was a profoundly catholic
writer and in her stories she expects that grace will touch not only her characters but also her readers. It is a sort of revelation that can take place in the conscience as the result of a terrible experience that transforms them.