Questions
General
Can you name three main influences on Mary Flannery?
What do you know about Mary Flannery’s father Ed O’Connor, and what did he do that helped inspire her writing?
Can you name three wars that played any role in Flannery’s life?
What do you know about Flannery’s religious beliefs?
What are some ways to describe the distinctive “voice” in Flannery’s writing?
What do you think makes Flannery’s writing appealing to generations of readers?
EARLY LIFE
What are some examples of Mary Flannery’s rebelliousness at home and at school?
What did Mary Flannery learn from drawing her chickens?
What did Mary Flannery ask her childhood friends to do?
Why did the O’Connor family move to Milledgeville?
What were Mary Flannery’s main artistic activities during these years, and how did they prepare her to become a fiction writer?
RETURN TO MILLEDGEVILLE
Why did Flannery move back to Milledgeville after becoming a published author?
What did Regina O’Connor do on the farm to earn money and to help Flannery with her writing?
What advice did Flannery give to young writers?
What do you know about the disease called lupus?
