Hidden Themes
... The hidden theme we take in as readers at the end of the story after we have experienced everything Gimpel shamelessly had to go through is we should all be like Gimpel in a sense that we should put our trust in the Lord. ... The themes that Flannery O’Connor and Singer produce in these two short stories inform the audience with the meaning and purpose of their respective stories and really show us what they are trying to get across.