He also married his 14 year old cousin, but my understanding is that the marriage may have been to prevent her from shipping off somewhere and him losing another beloved woman. He loved his best friend’s mom who died of a brain disease and his wife died if TB as did his foster mother.
I wrote my Master Thesis on the collected works of O’Connor. She was a powerhouse of an author. I had the pleasure of teaching “A Good Man is Hard to Find” once to my seniors before it got pulled from our curriculum.
One of my students started yelling that “That can’t be all? Is that all? Omg?”
An author who didn’t leave room for heros. Love her.
I teach English IV in high school in Florida. Welcome to dystopia.