Mrs Turner Summary

Summary

This story begins in the waiting room of a hospital. Right away you can tell Mrs. Turpin is a self-important woman, “There was one vacant chair and a place on the sofa occupied by a blond child in a dirty blue romper who should have been told to move over and make room for the lady”. She looks around at all the people gathered in the waiting room and immediately finds a likened soul because the woman was, “a well-dressed grey-haired lady ”. She begins to put the people in the waiting room into categories based off their appearance and mannerism. Present is the higher class woman who 's “well-dressed and pleasant”. She also labels the teenage girl as “ugly” and the poor woman as “white-trashy”. When Mrs. Turpin converse with her

Turner is sent a revelation in the form of a vision. In the vision the blacks, white trash, lunatics, etc are in the front procession to Heaven, while people Mrs. Turpin considered of her pedigree and above where in the back of the line. The vision reveals that everyone is equal in the eyes of God. Mrs. Turpin was a racist woman who really didn’t try to hide it. She repeated refers to the black characters in the short story as, “Niggers.” Though she prides herself for being kind to her black farmhands, she considers them to be idiots. In considering the classes of people, she puts black people "on the bottom of the heap," at the same level as white-trash people, but separate. But the white-trash woman in the waiting room is also racist, and considers herself to be above black

I was instantly struck by how they seemed so alike they could have been best friends. The grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" talks nonstop, oblivious to the annoyance she is causing others and preoccupied with what she wants to the exclusion of anyone else 's feelings and needs. Mrs.Turpin is outwardly pleasant to everyone but inwardly critical, because she again is preoccupied with her own needs and makes constant comparisons between herself, whom she holds in high esteem, and others around her, most of whom she finds fault with like the "white-trashy" mother. Both women are Christian, and both suffer violence at the hands of