Flannery O'Connor, a Catholic novelist in the Protestant South, was greatly influenced by her religion and it is apparent in her works. Some of her stories expose hypocrisy in religious women, but as much as she is known for her exploration of religious themes, she is known for integrating her southern culture and heritage into her stories as well. In "Revelation", O'Connor focuses on the life of Mrs. Turpin, who has believed all her life …showed first 75 words of 1192 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1192 total…God's grace. In the end, it didn't matter that Mrs. Turpin was a respectable church-going woman or a white woman that owned property. In the end, Christ had saved everyone. O'Connor continues on to say that, "This idea, that reality is something to which we must be returned at considerable cost, is one which is seldom understood by the casual reader, but it is one which is implicit in the Christian view of the world."