Before the Sun Has Set: Retribution in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

This detailed analysis of the theme of retribution is a key to understanding the fiction of Flannery O’Connor. An idea central to the Bible, Dante, and Chaucer – one is paid back for the evil one does or for failure to do good – retribution expresses O’Connor’s interest as a writer and defines the contour of her achievement as an artist. Within the twenty-year span of her writing career, O’Connor’s notion of retribution expanded from her original concept in her first story, <> of retribution as personal and familial, to her final version in her last story, <> which shows an interest that is eschatological.

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