"The Peeler" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...

. It was first published in Partisan Review

Partisan Review

Partisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003, though it suspended publication between October 1936 and December 1937.-Overview:...

in 1949. It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories

The Complete Stories (O'Connor)

The Complete Stories is a short story collection by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises the stories in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge, plus several previously unavailable stories.-Contents:*"The Geranium"*"The...

. It was eventually incorporated into her novel, Wise Blood

Wise Blood

Wise Blood is the first novel by American author Flannery O'Connor, published in 1952. The novel was assembled from several disparate stories first published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review...

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The story describes a young man, Hazel Motes, encountering a man selling potato peelers on the street who is interrupted by a blind man and his daughter who are handing out religious tracts. Motes also encounters Enoch Emery, a young man who seems to parallel himself, and they follow the blind man down the street.