Religious Imagery in Flannery OConnors The Life You Save May Be Your

Religious mental imagery in Flannery OConnors The Life You Save May Be Your OwnThe ghostly imagery in Flannery OConnors The Life You Save May Be Your Own gives the tarradiddle a cynical undertone along with a healthy treat of irony. OConnor uses allusions to Jesus and Christianity to examine the hypocrisies of the religion and its adherents. Her character Tom T. Shiftlet is portrayed paradoxically as both the embodiment of Christ and an immoral, utterly selfish miscreant. By presenting these polarities side by side within one persona, OConnor shows the dichotomies between questionable Christian morality and the reality of the Church.During his first encounter with the Lucynell Craters, Mr. Shiflet appears to be a harmless, generous wanderer. As he approaches the Crater?s home he ?swung ...