The demonic grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge

Abstract

This paper surveys the grotesque as a main genre in American Literature which is mostly connected with satire. It defines the grotesque from the gothic to the textual analysis o f the collection o f short stories in Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) as a short fiction b y F lannery O’Connor, the twentieth century American writer. He has created great tragi-comedy fictions in Southern Gothic. This paper also tries to place O’Connor’s fiction as a great example o f the demonic grotesque within the framework o f the American gothic. Totally, this paper studies this book on the characteristics which depict the demonic grotesque