As I was reading Revelation by Flannery O’Connor I noticed a lot of similarities to Good Country People, also by O’Connor. Both contained a woman who thought she was better than anyone else. In Revelation the setting is in a doctor’s office at first. The main character Mrs. Tupin has brought her husband in to have a wound looked at. While Mrs. Turpin sits waiting she looks at everyone else in the waiting room and is very quick to judge who is “trash” and who is not. She notices one girl who is reading; whom she calls several names like fat, ugly, and had a face full of acne. She goes on to call several other people in the waiting room white trash, niggers, poor and several other names. The girl that Mrs. Tupin called so many names stares her down almost like a death stare. After some time the girl throws her book at Mrs. Tupin, and hits her in the head. People rush in to restrain the girl, and while she is restrained Mrs. Trupin leans down and asks the girl “what you got to say to me”, the girl responds with “go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog”. This blew Mrs. Trupin away because she considered herself more favorable in Gods eyes, and now this girl was telling her this. Mrs.Trupin then had a revelation that God sent this girl to show her that she was no better than any of those other people.
In both Good Country People and Revelation it seems like O’Connor is saying that God is real and he will use things to prove that he is. Also both stories had a girl that most would consider less than perfect. It seems like, in both stories, there is a lot of emphasis on physical looks and the consequences of judging someone before you really know them.
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