"Revelation" Reflection

After reading "Revelation", a short story by Flannery O'Connor, the thing I remembered most was the vivid imagery that the author used to describe Mrs. Turpin's thoughts. My favorite image described was as the Turpins were coming up their driveway seeing, "The land sloped gracefully down through a field dotted with lavender weeds at the start of the rise their small yellow frame house... (139). I loved picturing her imagery and also think it helped me to feel her sense of pain in the last couple paragraphs of the story. O'Connor also used a lot of literary devices throughout her work that helped me visualize the story.

I am also still shocked by the behavior of Mary Grace, the "ugly girl". From the first time the author mentioned the ugly girl glaring at Mrs. Turpin, I knew that something alarming was going to take place in the waiting room. I never would have thought that she would throw the book at the Turpin family. I also thought it was ironic that they went to the doctors office to get better but they both ended up getting hurt even more. 

In the beginning, Mrs. Turpin talks about how she is confident in herself and how she is extremely thankful that Jesus "gave her a little bit of everything," (135). In this moment, she is contempt with who she is. This thought of gratitude and thankfulness is wiped away due to remarks made by Mary Grace before she was hauled off in the ambulance. She calls Mrs. Turpin a, "wart hog from hell." I think that when Mary Grace calls her this, Mrs. Turpin realizes that she has been living her life wrong. When she is hosing down the hogs, she has a conversation with God and starts to compare herself to many people. She starts to lose her optimistic mindset about herself that she had at the beginning of the story. The visions she saw in the sky also helped her to realize that there is no hierarchy in the people she saw in the waiting room. Mrs. Turpin sees a tribe in of the patients in the sky who all have, " a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right." In this moment, she realizes that they all have a little bit of everything and not just her. In the end, I think Mrs. Turpin learned that how she was living her life before was wrong and that God put Mary Grace in the waiting room so that she could realize it. 

Questions:
- Why is this story full of so much racism?
- Why does Mrs. Turpin take her anger out on her hogs?
- Overall analyzing the last paragraph