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It would be easy to write stories about self-righteous, bigoted, condescending, self-assured people getting what we think they deserve. But then, by taking pleasure in those stories we would become the thing we hate. Flannery does something much more difficult. She writes stories about self-righteous people getting what they least deserve and least believe they need: divine mercy. Her best stories are not so much about justice for the oppressed as about mercy for the oppressors. She understands that the same divine movement that brings justice for the oppressed also offers mercy to their oppressors. Her God is, in the Thomistic sense, simple. His justice is his mercy. Finally, I think an honest reading of Flannery will reveal that most of us are like her characters -- we least deserve what we most need.