Comments on: “Parker’s Back” by Flannery O’Connor

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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:57:43 +0000

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By: Scribbler3

Scribbler3 — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:23:00 +0000

One of the better things I’ve read about O’Connor. You capture her spirit, her ambiguity, the impossibility of pinning her down. And in response to Dennis’ very fair questioning of whether Sarah Ruth leaders him to salvation: Yes, she is clearly the agent of grace in this story, however flawed she is. And that’s one of the things that makes O’Connor so compelling. Her agents of grace are always flawed, often maddeningly so. Think of Mary Grace throwing a book at Mrs. Turpin in “Revelation.” O’Connor goes out of her way to subvert the idea of faith as warm and cuddly. Grace, and the agents of grace, are to be found in unexpected places, she says, often in dark and dusty corners.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:58:00 +0000

i really don’t think ruth leads parker onto salvation. true when o.e. goes the extra mile to get that final tattoe of the Byzantine Christ, it’s
evidently his subtle however weird way of bumbling his way to Christ;
accepting the sovereignity of Christ; and seeking to change/ become a
better person. but what does
his self-righteous wife do? shout “idolatry” and proceed to whip him
frenziedly with a broom, driving him into deeper rejection, deeper
alienation when all he has been doing is to please her, and to get a bit
of the Christ that’s in her. when we see parker crying under the tree, is he the same again? if he fails to find the God in her, will he ever find him again? hasn’t his world crushed? hasn’t he been betrayed by the only individual that fascinates him? isn’t a lesson to us to us that profess to be christians to be shrewd in the way we deal with
non-believers lest we drive them further away? indeed woe unto us that claim to know better; but that
through our religious inflexibility fail to water the seed that the Lord
has in His mysterious way planted in those closest to us!

By: K.Jo

K.Jo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:04:00 +0000

Waugh–Brideshead Revistited

Good post–thanks

By: K.Jo

K.Jo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:04:00 +0000

Waugh–Brideshead Revistited

Good post–thanks

By: K.Jo

K.Jo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:04:00 +0000

Waugh–Brideshead Revistited

Good post–thanks

By: Susiesue22

Susiesue22 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:18:00 +0000

suck my cakakaaaaa dick niggaa !!!!!! flannery stories are a bore!!!! what nucca what what u say now nucca!!!!

By: Luna Digest, 12/5 - Fictionaut Blog

Luna Digest, 12/5 - Fictionaut Blog — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:58:15 +0000

[...] for students to read Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Flannery O’Connor’s “Parker’s Back,” but it’s also important for them to know that both writers had published work in The Kenyon [...]

By: HTMLGIANT

HTMLGIANT — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:59:56 +0000

[...] the continued life of Obadiah Elihue, the character from Flannery O’Connor’s story, “Parker’s Back”, which I wrote about here. Good stuff. Tags: tim [...]

By: Brandon Hobson

Brandon Hobson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:47:43 +0000

PR,
A great review and a great story. Thanks for writing this.