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Lucynell Crater's Character

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Arbol que chueco nace chueco se queda. [The tree that grows twisted will never fix its ways]. Many people would agree that the bad characters that everyone grows to love and hate are pure evil on the inside and out. In literature these are the characters that might be flat. Of course not all characters are simple. In The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O’Connor, Lucynell Crater[ mother the Lucynell Crater]’s character is contradicting because she is both caring and hypocritical demonstrating that there is a small bit of good in the most manipulating and deceiving people. In the beginning of The Life You Save May Be Your Own when Mr. Shiftlet is with Mrs. Crater and her daughter on page 3 she begins to advertise her own daughter

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