“Revelation” By Flannery O’Connor Ruby Turpin measures all things and sees all people by assuming the role of God and placing people into her own caste system. Before going to bed at night, instead of saying her prayers she, she assumes this role. On page 491, we see Mrs. Turpin admitting that “sometimes [she] occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.” She goes on to identify the classes as she sees them. After …showed first 75 words of 898 total…

…showed last 75 words of 898 total…found on page 508, “Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away”. These “perfect” people had nothing on the dregs of Mrs. Turpin’s society, in God’s eyes. Left with this reversed hierarchy of saved individuals, she sees what God has in store for all social classes. A vision where "many who are now first will be last, and the last will be first." (Matthew 19:30)