"I'm sure I'll be imagining your production each time I re-read these two stories."
"I thought that having the main voice of the narrator be a black female actor was refreshing and right (not only because the actor did a great job). Black people in middle GA, of course, see through the follies of whites. [...] When I came back to Milledgeville, the first question I got from a student in my O'Connor class was about how you handled the violence. I realized that I did not tell you how very much I enjoyed the manner in which you played the violence. It seemed that you went for stylized, nonrealistic treatment, in slo mo to assure the audience that it's not quite real but still quite horrible, esp. with Mary Fortune's biting of Mr. F's face. I also liked that the black mother's pocketbook in "ETRMC" came no closer than a yard away from the face of Julian's mother. "
"For reasons I cannot quite understand, I liked the final tableau on stage at the end of each story, and the similarity: it was quite moving to see a dead/dying parent at the front corner of the stage."
-Marshall Bruce Gentry, Ph.D. Professor of English
Georgia College & State University
Editor, Flannery O'Connor Review
"A View of the Woods"
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"
Kennesaw State University, 2009
Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
