Biographies
This Georgia-born author filled her darkly comic stories with violence and religious themes.
Who is Flannery O’Connor
The quote: “. . . If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” comes from this work.
What is "The Petrified Man" by Eudora Welty
In the short story “The Petrified Man,” the Petrified Man had a warrant out for his arrest for this crime.
What is the rape of four women?
The following quote describes this character: “[His] hair was just beginning to gray and he wore silver-rimmed spectacles that gave him a scholarly look.”
Who is The Misfit?
Before becoming a famous fiction writer, this author worked as a photographer and interviewer for the Works Progress Administration.
Who is Eudora Welty
The quote: “‘. . . I know I’m real simple. I don’t know how to say a thing but to say it. I’m just a country boy’” comes from this work.
What is "Good Country People" by Flannery O’Connor?
In the short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” this creature’s escape causes the wreck of the family vehicle.
What is the Grandmother’s Cat?
The following quote describes this character:
“. . . when it goes through [his] digestion . . . it goes to his joints and has been turning to stone”
Who is the Petrified Man or Mr. Petrie?
This writer explored themes of silence and shame in her works and later received both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts.
Who is Maxine Hong Kingston?
The quote: “. . . a family must be whole, faithfully keeping the descent line by having sons to feed the old and the dead, who in turn look after the family” comes from this work.
What is "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston?
In the short story, “No Name Woman,” this is where Kingston’s aunt gives birth to her child.
Where is the pigsty?
The following quote describes this character:
“[She] would have been a good woman … if it had been somebody to shoot there to shoot her every minute of her life”
Who is the grandmother?
Diagnosed with the same disease that killed her father, this author, once an aspiring cartoonist, wrote her final stories from her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, relying on crutches as lupus advanced.
Who is Flannery O’Connor?
The quote: “So . . . she’s very observant, a good judge of character, cute as a minute . . .” comes from this work.
What is "The Petrified Man" by Eudora Welty?
In the short story “Good Country People,” these 3 items were in Manley Pointer’s Bible bag.
What is whiskey, cards and condoms?
The following quote describes this character:
“[Her] betrayal so maddened them, they saw to it that she would suffer forever, even after death”
Who is the aunt?
Before earning her English degree from UC Berkeley, this author worked in her family’s California laundry, the same business her poet-scholar father opened along with a gambling ring.
Who is Maxine Hong Kingston?
This quote: “He didn’t have a naturally sunny disposition . . .” comes from this work.
What is "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O’Connor?
In the short story “The Petrified Man”, this amount was the reward for the turning in of Mr. Petrie.
How much is $500 cash?
This quote describes this character:
“’[You’re] a Christian!’ she hissed. ‘You’re a fine Christian! You’re just like them all—say one thing and do another’”
Who is Manley Pointer?