What is the main conflict in Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor?

Because this was O’Connor’s last work, she considered it the culmination of all the themes and elements she had written about thus far. What is striking about all of O’Connor’s stories is her use of setting. O’Connor uses the South as a means of supplying motivation; rather than having the setting be only a place where the action takes place, the South allowed O’Connor to create characters and situations that were extremely real and lifelike. Because the South is steeped in historical drama, many different people hold deep discrimination toward others. The presence of religion created a strong sense of perfection and pleasantries; however, these covered up hostile feelings for anyone who was different from the norm. Because she lived many of her years in Georgia, O’Connor was able to take these feelings she witnessed during her childhood and translate them onto the page.