A Reading of Flannery O’Connors “Everything that Rises Must Converge”

Abstract: Everything that rises must converge is a short story which, without the aid of suspense that is often provoked in fiction by actions hanging on a bare thread in a whirling plot of intertwining – and perhaps incredible – events, catches the reader‟s attention until the very last word. The plot of the story could not be any simpler; a young bachelor takes his overweight mother by bus to a „reducing class‟ but before they reach the place the mother changes her mind, heads back home, has a stroke and is left by her helpless son dying or maybe dead as he goes to seek help. But parallel to the plot of events is a “plot" of revelation; as the insignificantly banal happenings take place, an unfolding of character slowly emerges before the reader‟s eyes

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2013) 4 ; 5-10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Englische Literatur Amerikas ; Englische Literatur

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SciPress
• (when): 2013

Further information

• DOI: 10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.4.5
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019051815351612371862
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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