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The Displaced Person : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Displaced Person
"The Displaced Person" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find''. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work and her own family hired a displaced person after World War II. == Plot summary == The story takes place on a farm in Georgia, just after World War II in the 1940s. The owner of the farm, Mrs. McIntyre, contacts a Catholic priest to find her a "displaced person" to work as a farm hand. The priest finds a Polish refugee named Mr. Guizac who relocates with his family to the farm. Because the displaced person is quite industrious, the Shortleys, a family of white farm hands, feel threatened and try to manipulate Mrs. McIntyre into firing Guizac, but Mrs. McIntyre decides to fire Shortley instead because of his perceived laziness. After the Shortleys leave, Mrs. McIntyre misses Mrs. Shortley but finds out she died of a stroke on the day that they left, so she invites Mr. Shortley back instead. When she finds out that Guizac has asked his teenage cousin to come to America by marrying one of the African American farm hands, she is appalled. When she eventually goes to fire him, she becomes a silent participant in his murder, when - with Mrs. McIntyre quietly observing - a bitter, resentful Mr. Shortley positions a tractor to roll over Guizac's body as if by accident as he works beneath another machine. The tractor finally does so, crushing and killing him. Mrs. McIntyre's farmhands abandon her and, after she suffers a nervous collapse, she is bedridden and receives no visitors save for the priest. 〔(Flannery O'Connor: an introduction ) (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1991), pg. 173-183〕
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