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Aug 2023
1h 37m

EP16 - Family Breakfast | O’Connor, The ...

David Anderson and Eric Williams
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Flannery O’Connor, The Lame Shall Enter First. Sheppard is a high-minded liberal. Norton is his disappointing young son, who seems indifferent to Sheppard’s moral crusades. In the opening paragraphs of this short story Flannery O’Connor presents the two of them at breakfast. Every detail of the depiction alludes to just what is wrong within this little f ... Show More
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