GROTESQUE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK: ROSES FOR GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE
GROTESQUE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK: ROSES FOR GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE

Summary/Abstract: Faulkner’s “ A Rose for Emily” and O’Connor’s “Good Country People” have already been compared or read together quite a number of times, especially in terms of their portrayal of character and community, insanity and other psychological features of the female protagonists, the uses of irony in their “Southern Gothic” settings, symbols, morality and religion, or style as such. Our own paper looks at structural elements, organization, the role of space and setting, the heroines themselves and the two villains, other characters and the role of the two communities, vision and language use, and the grotesque tongue-in- cheek lessons offered by the two great authors. However, let it also be said that the comparative effort behind this paper is less important than the occasion it offers for a parallel interpretation of two excellent stories, whose theme places them at the very heart of literature.

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