Ruby Turpin spends nearly all of Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation,” telling herself and others what a good, God-fearing woman she is, how grateful she is that the Lord has made her so.

The dark irony of this—the kind found in so much of O’Connor’s work—is that Mrs. Turpin is, in fact, one of the worst kinds of people: a judgmental racist who looks down on those she deems “white trash.” The only person in “Revelation” who sees Mrs. Turpin in all of her hypocrisy is a young girl named Mary Grace. So enraged is Mary Grace by Mrs. Turpin’s ignorance that she hits her in the face with a book called Human Development in a doctor’s waiting room, catalyzing in Mrs. Turpin a profound, prophetic awakening.

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