I was absolutely giddy to see Flannery O'Connor make an appearance in the season finale of Lost, as she is one of my favorite writers. I thought I'd share a couple of passages from the short story "Everything that Rises Must Converge" that may hold some symbolism.
They are spoken by the main character Julian, who has accepted an integrated black and white world, to his mother, who is stuck in her old ways. These come from the end of the story.
"What all this means," he said, "is that the old world is gone. The old manners are obsolete and your graciousness is not worth a damn." He thought bitterly of the house that had been lost for him. "You aren't you who think you are," he said.
And two paragraphs later:
“You needn’t act as if the world had come to an end,” he said, “because it hasn’t. From now on you’ve got to live in a new world and face a few realities for a change. Buck up,” he said, “it won’t kill you.”
Foreshadowing of things to come? Does this show that the past had been changed? Had a new reality been set in? Is the world safe?
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