The Brilliant Bafflement of Wildcat
Sr. Margaret Kerry, fsp "Our experience of the grotesque should result in bafflement" (Wilson Yates). Wildcat is imaginative, faith-filled, and baffling, a genuine Flannery O'Conner come to screen. Robert Giroux, friend, and publisher described his relationship with Flannery as "strange and trusting" while he said her dreary chair at the University of Iowa glowed ( The Complete Stories Flannery O'Conner ). Her teacher Caroline Gordon described O'Conner's writing as "baffling the reviewers." Giroux confirmed "They all recognized her power but missed her point." One of the points to get to right away is Flannery’s use of descriptives that many consider racist. DW, who keeps the weblog Becoming Flame wrote, Flannery “writes about racism, prejudice, and white privilege in almost every story, exposing them for what they are and showing how firmly and pervasively and subtly they lurk in our culture. "I’m not saying don’t take o