Which type of Southern gothic character is represented in O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”?

The story centers on Mr. Shiftlet, a poor, rootless drifter who has no stable home or community and survives by wandering and taking odd jobs. He represents the isolated lower-class figure often found in Southern Gothic fiction. He is manipulative, but the story does not present him primarily as an inexplicably violent person or a religious fundamentalist.

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