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Literary critics contend that James treats Catherine as a "heroine of interest." They add, "It is, perhaps, the only way of making credible heroes out of people who are not insightful, singular, or admirable but who stubbornly continue to exist in the world, to suffer and triumph, live, and die."

So too, one might argue, that is the case with Flannery O'Connor's Southern gothic characters. What is the difference? '