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The old woman and her daughter were sitting on their porch when Mr. Shiftlet came up their road for the first time. The old woman slid to the edge of her chair and leaned forward, shading her eyes from the piercing sunset with her hand.

The characters in the excerpt are an example of
religious fundamentalists.
people with disabilities.
the isolated lower classes.
the racially intolerant.

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the isolated lower classes.

The scene (an old woman and her daughter on a rural porch, watching a stranger approach) evokes a poor, isolated Southern setting and characters typical of lower-class isolation in O'Connor’s story.