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“Everything That Rises Must Converge” By Flannery O’Connor In the story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” one main theme is that of identity. In this story we meet Julian, who is a college graduate still living at home with his mom, selling typewriters and who does not believe that he will amount to anything. In this story it seems like Julian is determined to be not like his mother but as the reader we …

…too caught up in being annoyed by his mother to see and potentially even value some of the ways that he his like his mother. Because Julian’s identity was so much tied to his mother maybe now, as he is severed from his mother by her death, he will learn to accept the ways in which he is like his mother and also be able to move on to further establish his own identity.