Re-evaluating and Changing Oneself
Just think, how would you like to always be judged depending on how you look, how you dress, how much money you have, and what the color of your skin is. The short story, “Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor, is about Mrs. Turpin, who judged people by their looks and their racial background. She later came to realize that she was the one who needed to rejudge and change herself. During this time of the Civil Was Era people were going through emancipation. Mainly the white people were changing their outlooks on the colored people. Yet, Mrs. Turpin continues to live her life judging others, while others are looking past that. Mrs. Turpin needed to realize that there has to be a change in the way that she prejudges people that are different from herself. Mrs. Turpin is a very stubborn and judgmental woman. Once Mrs. Turpin entered the room of the doctor’s office her first reaction was to scan the room to see and take in what kind of people were there. She automatically placed a label on each one of them. “Her little black eyes took in all the patients as she sized up the seating situation.” (O’Connor 284) This is a prime example of how she judges everyone before she gets to know the different people that are in the doctor’s office. Right away Mrs. Turpin looks at everyone and then prejudges the people in the doctor’s office by their looks.