Both “The Displaced Person” and “Bloodline” focus on the interactions between people within small southern communities. The conflicts within these communities arise as the characters are confronted with the intrusion of moral imperatives upon individual desires and cultural traditions. Through their depictions of their characters’ struggles, O’Connor and Gaines seem to be insisting that we all have a moral responsibility to each other that is not always an easy burden to bear. Write a paper that compares and contrasts how Gaines and O’Connor treat the concept of individual responsibility to the community in these two short stories. How does each author argue that we have a responsibility to each other?
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