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

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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

• ISSN: 2300-2697
• Extent: Seite(n): 5-10
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences(4)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Zadeh, Mohammad Reza Modarres
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): SciPress
• (where): Schweiz
• (when): 2013

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.4.5
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST