Everything you need to understand or teach A Circle in the Fire by Flannery O'Connor.
Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Circle in the Fire" was originally published in 1954 in Kenyon Review
. At the time of its publication, O'Connor was on the verge of being recognized as one of America's greatest short-story writers, her first story having been published in 1946. In 1955 "A Circle in the Fire" appeared in three volumes, which together assured O'Connor's place in the literary canon: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (O'Connor's first published...