What is the setting of Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor?

The settings used throughout O'Connor's works vary but are restricted to the southeastern United States, mostly Tennessee and Georgia. This is in keeping with O'Connor's love of the south, although the writer also lived in Massachusetts during her career.

The places depicted in the stories are rural, somewhat economically depressed, and portray the condition of the country and the specific region as it was during the time period, which is generally in the 1940s and 1950s.