In my other English class we are currently reading Mary Wroth. She was an author that mixed autobiographical events and fiction quite a bit. My class discussed quite a bit about how it was very obvious in some of her works that you can clearly see who she was writing about. In a set of her sonnets, she is very clearly talking about her relationship with her first cousin who happened to be her lover. In her novel she also briefly mentions the affairs of a member of court (the Jacobean court), who recognizes himself in it. He was very upset with what she had written and made a huge deal out of it, helping in having Wroth be basically kicked out of court.
So with that in mind, when I was reading the letter that Chelsea Lane blogged about that involved O’Connor’s inspiration for “The Displaced Person” it is very obvious that the dairy man’s wife was a huge inspiration, and actually became a character. Here’s my point, I wonder how the dairy man’s wife felt after reading this story. I actually have to wonder if she even read the story, and if she did, did she recognize herself in it. Assuming that she did, I would think that she would be a little upset about it. But I certainly hope that she would realize that she is a (as Sarah has named them) Lame-o. After realizing this, I hope that the dairy man’s wife could change from a lame-o into a non-lame-o.