Mary Flannery O'Connor has earned a very prominent place in American Literature. Her writing was deeply influenced by her Roman Catholic background and her devout faith in God. Born into very prominent families from Georgia, O'Connor was an only child who at an early age had an interest for the unusual, which would one day mark the reputation for her work. In 1947 Mary Flannery O'Connor earned her Master's degree with six short stories from the University of Iowa. The stories O'Connor wrote were published in prestigious literary journals as well as popular magazines. O'Connor's intent in her writing was to reveal the mystery of God's grace in everyday life by intertwining bizarre and violent acts with spirituality among characters. Crime and violence flow in her writing from her innate literary ability as do her razor sharp wit. Her fiction is abundant with grotesque situations and her most famous work involves characters that are "possessed" living around everyday people. The critics have often made comments on Miss O'Connor's fascination with the outlandishly bizarre attraction to physical deformity and imperfection. Critics note " O'Connor's tales, while expressing intense action, are related in concise, almost epigrammatic prose, which is vividly expressive"(334). O'Connor used bold imagery with abrasive sarcasm as she depicted the grotesque. Mary O'Connor once said her stories had an extra dimension and "this extra dimension comes about when the writer puts us in the middle of some human action and shows it as it is illuminated and outlined by mystery. In every story there is some minor revelation which, no matter how funny the story might be, gives us a hint of the unknown, of death"(17). The analogy that contemporary society has to embrace evil in order to rediscover good or pursue the demonic in order to finally arrive at the holy seemed to center around her profound true to human experiences. In the story "A Goo...