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Both "Revelation" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find"written by Flannery O'Connor are stories about hypocrisy. Hypocrisy means feigning to be what one is not or false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion. Here in both of these stories the main charcters Mrs.Turpin and the grandmother are hypocritical and judgmental. In "Revelation" Mrs.Turpin believes that she is one of God's chosen. She is very prejudice and judges people by …

…threaten her with death daily. It is unfortunate it took death to make grandmother a good woman. Most of O'Connor's stories are frequesdtly about characters that receive either the grace of God or its opportunity at the expense of their most cherished illusions. Both stories show that it doesn't matter what kind of life you lead, or what kind of religion you accept if you push the issue it will blow up in your face.