Flannery O’Connor is well known as a Southern writer and as a Catholic writer. But critics often point out that those labels aren’t sufficient in capturing the scope of her writing. This week, consider how her work both represents those traditions/cultures yet engages in other content, themes, and values. Part 1: How does O’Connor appear to represent these identities and how does her scope transcend those distinctions? Use textual evidence. Part 2: Considering the stories over the past two weeks,( Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People” and Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich) how can literature affect us morally and spiritually when it isn’t didactic (i.e. when it isn’t overtly attempting to do so)? Without a moral of the story as we are used to growing up, can a narrative be moralistic?