flanner oconnor

Connor 354). It is not an accident that the number of graves "five or six" matches the exact number of people in the car. There are 5 people and a baby. Since a baby is not exactly a full complete person, the obscureness of the number of graves being "five or six" is appropriate.
             The grandmother's reference to the plantation as "gone with the wind" can be seen as an image symbolizing the family's state at the end of the story (O'Connor 354). Their souls are "gone with the wind" as well upon death.
             Similarly, it is almost comical how O'Connor sets her readers up for the ending of the story. For example, the name of the town where the Misfit kills them is "Toombsboro" (O'Connor 356). The word Toombsboro can be divided into two words: Tombs and Bury. Put together with a slight southern accent gives the word "Tombsbury" which is very close to "Toombsboro". Another quite interesting imagery is when the grandmother asks the Misfit, "What did you do to get sent to the penitentiary that first time?" (O'Connor 36
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