ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the previous chapter’s search to understand the imago Dei in Flannery O’Connor’s work. The author argues that reproductive aging bodies in “A Stroke of Good Fortune” reflect the beauty of an aging Jesus and the Ancient of Days. This chapter probes the significance of textual markers of gray hair and pregnancy in the short story. This chapter considers God as aging in his incarnate humanity but suggests that it is not God’s age that the aging woman has the potential to reflect, but his character and qualities. In doing so, this chapter suggests that O’Connor approaches reflecting God via relation in difference versus bodily similitude.
