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this sense of an ordering that seeps down in to the material world,
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that moment when Hazel thinks that he's somehow seeing
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broken-off pieces of something that once happened to him.
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There is this latent order everywhere.
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And, for O'Connor, it's part of this moral religious
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order, this redemptive order, that Catholicism is for her.
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The New Criticism sits in a kind of deep analogy
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to that way of thinking about religion.
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That's why, I think, O'Connor found it so comfortable to learn and practice
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the New Critical tenets of formal construction of the literary.
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That's why she produced story after story after story that can be read
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in these formal ways with these symbols that accrue meaning and