The Subtly Southern Reader

THE DISPLACED PERSON  by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor carved a place for herself as one of the few who were allowed to write about her native South and be forgiven for her candor. She was vividly and embarassingly candid. She was afflicted with Lupus during the most productive years of her life and  spent many days writing from her room at the family farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.  As she gazed upon her peacocks and "saw" her post WWII South, she masterminded the setting for this story of Mrs. McEntyre, Mr. and Mrs. Shortley, the "coloreds", The Priest, the Peacocks  and "The Displaced Person".
    
 Note all these characters, what they think of themselves, what they think of each other, how they "practice what they preach" and how one family disrupts the "goings on" in this microcosim of a community found not just in the South, but most likely;  anywhere in America; then, and today.
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PART ONE OF SEVEN IS ON TOP                          LAST PART IS AT BOTTOM
EACH SECTION IS NO MORE THAN FIFTEEN MINUTES LONG
FOR A TOTAL OF LESS THAN NINETY MINUTES