A final post on O'Connnor's letters

In rereading allot of O'Connor's letters I have discovered that what seemed at first glance to be a woman who wrote out of a passion for writing it seems that her writing was a very clear outlet in defense of her theology, both as a southern writer and as a Catholic. It is amazing the number of times she argues either with the person she is addressing, or with someone she has recently encountered. This just gives me a better picture of her as a person you could interact with and someone who is easier to relate to. Although she is very eloquent in many ways, often she is at such odds with the world, that I can see how she had such a strong literary life, both in her correspondence (in that I think she was more comfortable with expressing herself in letters) and in her stories.