A review by scraigdavis
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor

5.0

I can see why O'Connor's stories and language of racism may definitely offend people. I'm not entirely sure if she wasn't in someway validating some of the character's prejudices and racism, even though there are obvious intentional arcs in the themes in the direction of divine judgment of such human flaws or "sinful natures" if you will. I mean it seems O'Connor herself was a person who intended to want to see and acknowledge the truth that everytying rising must inevitably converge under the heavenly justice of the Almighty. But she was also, even with such intentions to portray the injustices and ignorance in her society, a product of such a society. She was a flawed being, too. So naturally what flowed out of her pen must be tainted in some ways even if its quest was towards the untainted truth. In the end, I still admire her genius for storytelling, even if the stories may rattle the voice of sin and death. Her stories exhibit a side of man that we must not fail to grapple with.