Before even reading or hearing about Flannery O'Connor's background, I thought that she was a he and his works would be about the Irish in the 40's and 50's. So it was a quite a shock to learn that Flannery was a) a woman and b0 she writes about life in the South.
             She spent most of her life in the South in a Christian household, which finds its way into her work. Revelation was written in 1965 and focuses on one day in the life of Ruby and Claude Turpin. The very title of the story brings us back to the revelation stories in the bible whether it's the book of Revelation or the Book of Daniel. Throughout the story religious references are made from Ruby's Tower of Babel like vision at the end or the numerous church references. If we really wanted to reach and go into a conspiracy theorist thinking, Jesus was buried in the Shroud of Turin. If you drop the "p" from Ruby's name you get Turin. No that that is really reaching.
             From the start of the story Ruby live up to her image of a big domineering woman who wears the pants in the marriage. According to Marshall Bruce Gentry in an essay titled "Gender Dialogue in O'Connor, "Ruby Turpin of "Revelation" is a good example of females overcoming patriarchal authority through primitive strategies. She appears to suffer a chastening on the course of the story, but she can also be read as a creator of an alternate, unorthodox, personal religious system that gives her as much control over her life as men have over hers."
             Indeed the waiting room scene, until the outburst by Mary Grace, is like that which any reader might have had. Sitting in a packed waiting room, making polite conversation because it's awkward not to do so, comparing your self to the other patients, everyone does it. Especially when the frustration of waiting sets is.
             Through Ruby's inner dialogue we can see Flannery's
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