The Violent Bear it Away

I was actually surprised at how much O'Connor gave away in this first section of The Violent Bear it Away. Usually we ponder different ideas and possibilities of what O'Connor might be telling her readers, or what/who something/someone symbolizes in the text. The boy's thoughts are revealed, "Only every now and then it sounded like a stranger's voice to him. He began to feel that he was only just now meeting himself, as if as long as his uncle had lived, he had been deprived of his own acquaintance...his new friend..." (pg. 352.) In this passage, O'Connor spills an enormous chunk of information that she usually is more subtle about in her text. In this story, in particular, I saw more of the mystery in the imagery O'Connor gives us, rather than the actual dialogue, or the stranger's voice. She spends more time than usual on the images of the sky, and how the sun hits the trees. While she gave away information through the boy's thoughts, and the dialogue, she left me wondering about the pictures she paints, and the significance, if any, to the tone of the story.