The Displaced Person: Short Story

Authors: O'Connor, Flannery
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000
ISBN: 9781443440295, Related ISBNs: 1443440299, 9781443440295
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 25,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

After the end of the Second World War, Mrs. McIntyre, a farm owner, decides to hire a man displaced by the war as a farm hand, but jealousy from her other workers and racial issues soon complicate the arrangement.

Written by Flannery O’Connor while visiting her mother’s farm, “The Displaced Person” has ties to the author’s own experiences of the O’Connor family’s hiring of a displaced person on their farm after the end of the war. “The Displaced Person” was originally published in O’Connor’s 1955 anthology, A Good Man Is Hard to Find.

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