What metaphors are used in Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg?

Southern traditions is both a theme and a metaphor of a specific era and place. The novel is set in the Deep South, in a coastal town in Mississippi. Due to this setting, there are things about the novel that are historic, such as the segregation of the whites and the blacks, as well as things that are a regular occurrence in reality—the alcoholic father and the deeply religious mother. However, the author of this book goes out of her way to separate her story from some of these themes.