Cliffsnotes Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you’re bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on O’Connor’s Short Stories, you get to know eleven of Flannery O’Connor’s thirty-two short stories. In them, she imbues her characters with such truth to life that they are thoroughly believable despite any outrageous behavior. This guide introduces you to the major themes of O’Connor’s work and shows how her stories reflected her religious world view. In this study guide, you’ll find Life of the Author, O’Connor’s View of Her Writing, Suggested Essay Questions, and Critical Commentaries on the following