What is the author's style in A Circle in the Fire by Flannery O'Connor?

O'Connor makes frequent use of foreshadowing, so that the reader may guess the story's ending almost from the story's start. This predictability creates heightened tension rather than quashing it. Readers may feel as if they are on a roller coaster, careening inexorably toward a final, heart-stopping drop. They know the drop is coming, they just do not know exactly when, or what the approach to the drop will be like.