english: The book opens with the reluctant prophet in a particularly compromising position: “Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been  dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk  to finish digging his grave.” This leaves a passerby to “drag the body  from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it […] with enough dirt on top to keep  the dogs from digging it up.” Though her own politics are still debated, O’Connor’s fiction could also be attuned to the racism of the South.
non_english: Knjiga počinje oklevajućim prorokom u izuzetno kompromitujućem položaju: „Ujak Frensisa Meriona Tarvotera je tek pola dana bio mrtav kada se dečak toliko napio da nije mogao da dovrši kopanje groba.“ Zbog toga je povereno prolazniku „da odvuče telo sa stola za doručkovanje na kom je i dalje stajalo, i da ga zakopa [...] sa dovoljno zemlje odozgo kako ga psi ne bi otkopali.“ Iako se o njenim političkim stavovima i dalje raspravlja, O'Konorina fikcija bi takođe mogla da bude u skladu sa južnjačkim rasizmom.