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Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), originally named Mary O’Connor, made herselfa Southern literary prophet by her grotesque Gothic writing style. She is widelyrecognized as the most outstanding Southern American writer after Faulkner. O’Connorlived in the southern United States, which was known as the "Bible Belt". She hadunique life experiences and religious understanding due to her fatal illness. Regionalinfluence, religious background and her personal experience were the threeinexhaustible sources of her inspiration and motivation. During her short life of39years, she wrote two novels and31short stories, holding faith as her support andliterary creation as her mission. In her writing, the South is portrayed as a place withreligious mysteries. The aim of her writing is to reveal the grace and salvation of Godat His advent.This paper is divided into five chapters. The introduction discusses the reasons forchoosing the topic, and reviews the previous studies on O’Connor by both domesticand foreign researchers. It also describes the significance and innovations of this study.Chapter Ⅰ explores O’Connor’s unique life understanding, her rich Southerncultural background and her deep-rooted religious faith, based on her triple identity: aCatholic, a Southerner, and a writer.Chapter Ⅱ describes the character concept of O’Connor. In her novels, shedepicts all kinds of images of sinners: female characters with extreme deformity, malecharacters lingering on the brink of religious belief, and fallen people who used to beGod’s favored children. O’Connor cares for the sinner and points him to God’stranscending existence and the hope of His salvation despite the bleak reality.Chapter Three represents the character view created in O’Connor’s fiction. Shedescribed all kinds of sinner images and brought people into God’s grace by showingGod’s light to sinners in his extraodinary existence, pointing out the hope ofredemption behind the abnormal reality.Chapter Four emphasized the analysis of images and paid much attention to theimages of the sun,the light,the water,the fire,the peacock,the forest and the hat,etc.These complicated images constituted the image group, which contains profoundfeeling behind which pointed out God’s divine redemption.Chapter Five told us that what O’Connor intended to create is to recreate the cultural compasswhich provides the world identity of the direction, and to find the true self by returning back tobelief.The works of O’Connor are not only Southern and religious. With profoundthinking of the human nature and an ultimate concern for man’s fate, they transcendthe limit of time, space, and cultural boundaries and have become a source ofenlightenment to the mind of every reader.