Flannery O'Connor’s, A Temple of the Holy Ghost was a very strange story in my opinion. I did not quite understand it but nonetheless I will try to pick out any symbolism and any meaning to it that I can. I will first start with the three stages of reading that we discussed in class. The first stage reading, well is just that. When applied to this story we read about two girls who have come to stay with their cousin and these girls are obsessed with boys it seems. Later on in the story the girls go to a fair where there a he-she reveals him-herself to the crowd. Then the girls go back to the boarding school where they came from. This next stage of interpretation of the story is where I am lost. I have no idea what any of this means or how it is significant. The only “moral” of the story that I could find was that the Church of God is bad and that little girls from boarding schools are annoying and “stupid.” When we move on to the third stage of criticizing I find that I can either be very critical or not critical at all. I feel more that I can not be critical at all because I feel like I did not understand the story and this could be because of my own ignorance or lack of knowledge. However the less likely option is that the story was written poorly and it is not my fault that I do not understand, but I tend to think that it is no one’s fault but my own that I did not get the point to this story. Although there is the third option that this story did not have a point or moral and was just for entertainment. I’m lost.
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