A Sense Of Judgment In Mrs. Turpin's Revelation

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Revelation had many parts that made me react, mostly negatively, but probably the most shocking was the way the people in the story talked about black people and the overall judgement. I felt a sense of judgement right out of the gate in this book, with Mrs. Turpin’s descriptions of people. She mainly described people as Ugly, Fat, White Trash, and many other words. I was pretty taken aback with these statements because usually that is not the first thing that comes to people’s minds when they see somebody. Even in my mind, I don’t think very many people, especially where I am from would just think of people as the ugly one, or the fat one, or the white trash family, or the good one, or names like that. Probably the most shocking and telling think about Mrs. Turpin is when she said “Sometimes at night when she couldn’t go to sleep, Ms. Turnpin would occupy herself with the question of who she would have chosen to be if she couldn’t be herself. …show more content…
You can either be a n***** or white trash,’ what would she have said” (O’Connor 383). She amends this question throughout the story with adding ugly to the mix. This appalled me for many reasons. Mrs. Turpin was so afraid of losing her social status, the thing that would keep her up is the question of if she had been born into “one of the worst possible lives” for her, which one would she rather have. It’s like a racist “Lesser of two evils”. I am honestly not exactly sure why, but every single time I read this it makes me very uneasy. Not because of the language used, but because she thinks that being born black or not educated/white trash is one of the worst things that could happen. Her response to the question is even more appalling, “ she would have said, ‘Just let me wait until there's another place available,’ and he would have said, ‘No, you have to go right now’, and I have only those two places so make up your
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