![]() O’Connor uses the character of Mary Grace to show Mrs. This power causes her to place judgments on these people as we see she has “sized up the seating situation”. ![]() Turpin as “very large” she “made look even smaller by her presence” (488), we can conclude that her pride has has given her a controlling presence, and she assumes that she has power over the other people in the waiting room. Turpin, this spiritual healing of her pride takes place in a Doctor’s waiting room, which is symbolic of how one attends church to meet with God and have their sins forgiven. The way for the prideful to gain humility is for them to be spiritually healed. ![]() An obsession causing a love of power and exercising their own will, as well as having control. It is a sin that tricks people into believing that they themselves are a God-level person, stating that they wish for their will to be done, rather than the will of God. As it is found in the book of Genesis, the first sin that caused the fall of humanity was a pride, a true spiritual sickness. Sin is a disease that every person has, but we are often unaware of the extent of how it has metastasized. ![]()
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