Mary Flannery O'Connor was a tremendously influential writer of her time and her legacy will continue forever. She was a very intellectual woman and she wrote in such a way that was profound in text, meaning, and hidden significances: Mary Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925, and died of lupus in Milledgeville, Georgia on August 3, 1964. In these 39 years, she contributed a brief, powerful canon (two novels, thirty-two short stories, plus reviews and …
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…Flannery O'Connor consistently comes up with this common theme throughout her work. She shows how no matter what a person is like, inside or out, he is still deserving of God's grace. It is shown throughout the many short stories O'Connor wrote with each character. Each character no matter what types of flaws they possessed or what lesson they needed to learn or how imperfect they were physically or otherwise, God's grace is for all!