Flannery O'Connor and 'Wise Blood'

[Jack_Aubrey]

Might take me longer than I thought. I'm planning on reading 'Look Homeward, Angel' when I'm done with 'Trop of Cancer'.

[Scheherazade]

I’m assuming that by “yellow jacket” she was simply referring to a type of native bee. Yellow jackets build their nests in the ground and they are angry and aggressive. They’re sort of a miniature version of a hornet (we’ve got them here too).

Thank you, Sancho. It makes much more sense now why O'Connor compares Sabbath to a 'yellow jacket'!

Also, as far as Blanche DuBois is concerned, Atlanta is a long ways from New Orleans in both miles and attitudes.

Well, I wouldn't know! To me it is like 'Potato/potato', 'grass/grass', 'tomato/tomato' - It doesn't make much sense in writing but you know what I mean... When I think of an American woman from the South, I think of either Scarlet or Blanche!

*revels in her ignorance*