Question

Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”

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.

Answer 1

the isolated lower classes.

Both characters are presented as poor, rural Southerners sitting on a porch—typical of O’Connor’s depiction of isolated lower-class life.