identity from childhood, which is then always being consciously reshaped based on their environment. Leslie Bell, a psychoanalyst, conducted a case study on women in their mid-twenties who were suffering from instability due to binary thinking. In Leslie Bell’s “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom”, she explains how identity is unstable when people hold themselves back from acting on their desires. Bell focuses on how identity is comprised of a person’s
objections to the grotesque nature of her fiction, faulting her lack of tenderness or compassion, O’Connor reminded them of her being incredibly judgemental God – a God who recognizes sin as such. She says that if one believes in Faith at all, sees it as something which can be a device of instant upliftment, then it is through compassion. But then by bestowing pity, one loses moral vision much to the loss of spiritual purity on one’s