Death, Swimming, FlyFishing

Flannery O’Connor gave a good depiction how everyone is always in the end, in it for them selves. I thought that it was interesting how throw out the story that Mr. Shifflet appeared to be a relatively intelligent person with all the insight he gives, but it all seamed pretty shallow and had a hidden motive. In the end you find out that he really has no intelligences at all he only gets the ideas from other people and twisted them in the way he needed. Then the mother and daughter were probably the most depressing two people ever, the daughter is severely mentally retarded and the mother is old with no teeth a widow and is unable to do much on hear property. Then she has the most twisted view of things, she asks this man to marry here daughter, and this man she doesn’t know is basically bribed to do so with a car. I find that she sick and tired of taking care of her daughter just wanted to get rid of her .Which is basically what she did, as soon Mr. Shifflet was married and had his car he got out of town. Along the way he thought she needed something to eat. They pulled up to a diner he bought her some food but she fell a sleep. So instead of waiting for her he just left her at the diner and tooled the boy behind the counter that she was just a hitchhiker. As he pulled a way he saw this boy thumben for a ride, so he decides to pick him up. The boy gets into the car they sit there for a will in silence till Mr. Shifflet starts to ramble on about how his mother was an angle of god and he said the boy’s could be nothing less. Then the boy snapped at him and said “My old woman is a flea bag and yours is a stinking pole cat!” He jumped out of the still moving car. Mr. Shifllet was so shocked he just drove on for a hundred feet or so with the door wide open. The sight of a dark luminous cloud brought him back. He stared at it revved his engine and took off as to  raced the storm to a town saying “Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!”       

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