At the age of twenty-two, Mary Flannery O’ Connor, a famous twentieth century Southern writer, began her career in 1947 making her own distinct path in the ways of her writing. In the short years of O’ Connor’s life, she has completed 31 short stories and two novels, which have turned many heads for their distinct sense of humor and criticism of the “Old South.” With her roots in Georgia, this Roman Catholic uses her own …showed first 75 words of 1023 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1023 total…types of humor including blue humor, exxaggeration, situational humor, burlesque humor, caricature, understatements, satire, and wit. To sum up her humor would be grotesque. O’ Connor’s characters “all face physical, mental and attitude afflictions.” The use of these types of humor forms the basis to which O’Connor defines her main theme: “free will or freedom,” as a “mystery, and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.”