Assignment 4 The life you save may be your own

This is a  short story  that speaks about the life of a girl that lives with her mother and she is deaf and disabled to. The story inside contains message, irony and themes and in my opinion the theme is selfishness. The main characters  are Mr. Shiftlet  and Lucynell, and her mother. The main theme in this story is how good people can be used by evil people. Lucynell exemplifies the innocence who is surrounded by Mr. Shiftlet and Mrs. Crater who are both examples of evil. They each try to take advantage of each other, Mr. Shiftlet tries to take the car from Mrs. Crater and her mother  want to marry her daughter ,so she doesnt care for her anymore ,she want only to  achieve her own goals.The irony in this story I think is  how a mother can marry her daughter with a person that she don’t know who he is  just for money .Mr. Shiftlet wanted the car and the  old woman offered him a job without payment and she wanted to marry his daughter with him.The irony is that he abandons Lucynell  in the restaurant because she is a burden to him. She can’t live her life and someone has to take care of her. I think that the author O'Conner was trying to say that a con artist can be anyone, some close to you or even a stranger. Such as Lucynell (Mother) and Mr.Shiftlet (Stranger) Lucynell (Daughter) would never expect that her mother would basically sell her to get her good work around her house.I think that the story was sad, they both used poor Lucynell to get what they wanted.They use her as a way to achieve their goals.

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