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The barber: When Flannery O’Connor wrote this story, she was less than twenty-two years old and worked at the Writers’ Workshop of the University of Iowa. Maybe it’s because Flannery O’Connor’s works were famous for violence writing. Racial discrimination words repeat to appear over and over times. Probably, it doesn’t matter during that time in 1950s if we looked back to that old time. As a southern writer, her work style is completely different from others and heavily relied on grotesque characters and regional settings. Especially in his short story “The barber”. The whole story is about the local election in the small country town of Dilton. Two candidates are fighting for the Democratic nomination. The barber insists supporting Hawkson, the same as others barbershop. However, Rayber favors to vote for Darmon. He is quite annoyed by people voting for a candidate like Hawkson, who is really backwards, racist, and small-minded. He can’t image voters will choose a tobacco chewing man like that. Rayber, who is a college professor and satisfied with his social status, considers himself intellectually superior to the barber. Looking down upon what barber chooses and keeps his thoughts about the election to himself. He prefers to ignore him or not to argue with “a fool”. The silence doesn’t stop the barber’s mouth, he keeps irritating Rayber. Rayber can’t endure anymore and gives a speech describing why people need to support Darmon. In the story, it seems like Rayber are more intellectual than the other characters and Darmon is considered as the best candidate. Whereas, Rayber experiences a hard time to change the barber’s mind on voting for Hawkson. He did badly on speech. The words came out of his mouth are unsmooth and unclearl... ... middle of paper ... ...in mass of Flannery O’ Connor’s stories. Shilflet is supposed to drive off with Lucynell Crater and take her to go on a honeymoon. At this moment, ”the early afternoon was clear and surrounded by pale blue sky;” he still gets the chance to save himself. Whereas, after he drop her at The Hot Spot, he loses everything. The weather at this moment like “Deep in the sky a storm was preparing very slowly and without thunder… as if it meant to drain every drop of air from the earth before it broke.” Weather is getting worse after the hitchhiking boy leaps off his car. The personification of weather changes bases on plots throughout the story. O’ Connor uses such writing skills makes content more visible. Audience can easily recognized the process of plot by description of weather, it’s getting better or worse. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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