Effective Foreshadowing in Flannery O’Connor’s Greenleaf Essay

Effective Foreshadowing in Flannery OConnors Greenleaf Mrs. Mays bedroom window was low and faced on the eastbound and the bull, silvered in the moonlight, stood under it, his head raised as if he listened- like some patient god come down to woo her- for a promote inside her room. The window was dark and the sound of her breathing too light to be carried outside. Clouds crossing the room blackened him and in the dark he began to scud at the hedge. Presently they passed and he appeared again in the same spot, chewing steadily, with a hedge-wreath that he had ripped loose for himself caught in the tips of his horns. When the moon drifted into retirement again, there was nobody to mark his place but the sound of steady chewing. Then abruptly a pink glow filled the window. Bars of light slid across him as the venetian blind was split. He took a step backward and lowered his head as if to show the wreath across his horns. (311) An analysis of the introductory split of Flannery OConno rs Greenleaf reveals how diction and text structure foreshadow Mrs. Mays fate and create a...