The Train (short story)

"The Train"
Author	Flannery O'Connor
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Southern Gothic
Published in	Sewanee Review
Publication type	Journal
Publication date	April 1948

"The Train" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published in The Sewanee Review in 1948. It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories. O'Connor revised this story into the first chapter of her novel, Wise Blood.

"The Train" describes a young man, Hazel Motes, as he boards a train home and his interactions with other passengers and an African American employee who he believes to be the son of someone in his hometown. The man denies this.^[1]

References

↑ Connie Ann Kirk, Critical companion to Flannery O'Connor (Infobase Publishing, 2008)

Works by Flannery O'Connor

Novels

Wise Blood (1952)
The Violent Bear It Away (1960)

Short story
collections

A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)	"A Good Man is Hard to Find" "The River" "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" "A Stroke of Good Fortune" "A Temple of the Holy Ghost" "The Artificial Nigger" "A Circle in the Fire" "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" "Good Country People" "The Displaced Person"

Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965)	"Everything That Rises Must Converge" "Greenleaf" "A View of the Woods" "The Enduring Chill" "The Comforts of Home" "The Lame Shall Enter First" "Revelation" "Parker's Back" "Judgement Day"

Previously unavailable stories included in The Complete Stories (1971)	"The Geranium" "The Barber" "Wildcat" "The Crop" "The Turkey" "The Train" "The Peeler" "The Heart of the Park" "Enoch and the Gorilla" "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead" "The Partridge Festival" "Why Do the Heathen Rage?"

Non-fiction collections

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
The Habit of Being: Letters
The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews