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The setting used for ¡°Revelation¡± is in the early 1960¡¯s, somewhere down south in America. The story carries on in the waiting room of the hospital. O¡¯Connor has used third-person omniscient in this story to dramatically contrast the thoughts and words spoken by Ruby Turpin. We can vividly experience being a hypocrite, which is so common through our heads, as any normal human would be, but yet denied to be, through her character. Flannery O¡¯Connor¡¯s use of the underlying theme, spirituality-versus-evil, is represented very well in this story. There are two ways to view this underlying theme, spirituality-versus-evil. First is the conflict between Mary Grace and Mrs. Turpin. Much to our surprise, and a total opposite to Mrs. Turpin¡¯s concept of revelation, an ugly, nasty young woman, Mary Grace, is the mechanism through which the truth is revealed to Mrs. Turpin. The strange young woman is, in fact, reminiscent of an Old Testament prophet with her piercing eyes and her rude, uncompromising message. In the end, when Mrs. Turpin scolds God and demands that he justify himself to her, he answers with a vision in which, literally, the last (in Mrs. Turpin's scheme of reality) become first. This powerful scene al