's significance as a writer is her original use of religion. Like no other short story writer, she dramatizes religious themes in her fiction stories. She is established as one of the most gifted and original fiction writers of the 20th century. "Everything That Rise must converge," and " Revelation" won first prize in the O. Henry awards for short stories. "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and A "Circle in the Fire" won second prize in the O. Henry awards. "The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor" won the National Book Award in 1971 (Bloom 145-146).
             O' Connor's work is inspired by the sense of the mystery of human nature. She tends to use g
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