ENC 1101 H December 4, 2002 Willin' Grace In an instant, the gruesome September 11th terrorist attack placed ordinary people trapped on the upper floors of the World Trade Center at the edge of eternity. Some of them made the choice to join hands and leap to their certain death from the upper floors of the twin towering infernos. Perhaps it is at this moment that these people made contact with mystery. Flannery O'connor explores this mystery in …showed first 75 words of 1385 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1385 total…all he will have to take into eternity with him; and, like the victims of the World trade Center, since the characters in this story are all on the verge of eternity, it is appropriate to think of what they take with them. White, Terry Allegorical evil, existentialist choice in O'Connor, Oates and Styron. The Midwest Quarterly, Summer 1993 v34 n4 p383(15). http://faculty.kutztown.edu/reagan/oconnor. . htm http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/lewiss/Oconnor.html