When, near the end of the story, Mrs. Turpin roars, “Who do you thinkyou are?” an echo “returned to her clearly like an answer from beyond the wood” (paragraph 188). Explain
What will be an ideal response?
- Like the handwriting on the wall, Mary Grace’s utterance is baffling and mysterious. Sorely troubled, Mrs. Turpin turns it over and over in her mind all afternoon. She knows from Whom the message came: “What do you send me a message like that for?” (par. 179), and her impulse is to defend herself, to argue back at God.
O’Connor herself wrote in a letter to a friend, “I like Mrs. Turpin as well as Mary Grace. You’ve got to be a very big woman to shout at the Lord across a hogpen. She’s a country female Jacob. And that vision is purgatorial” (“Letter to Maryat Lee, May 15, 1964,” The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor, ed. Sally Fitzgerald [New York: Farrar, 1979] 577).
That Mrs. Turpin is a “country female Jacob”—a reference to the Old Testament patriarch who famously “wrestled” with God—is evident from the story’s end. Her irate challenge to the Almighty, “Who do you think you are?” is exactly the question God is asking her. God replies immediately: He is Lord of all creation, whose natural world “burned for a moment with a transparent intensity” (par. 188). He is the giver of life and of death, as Mrs. Turpin realizes when she sees Claud’s truck, whose driver and passengers at any moment could be destroyed.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Complete the following
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