None as blind as he who will not see.

… he wore silver-rimmed spectacles that gave him a scholarly look.

The boy found himself scrutinized by two small drill-like eyes set in twin glass caverns.

… some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see.  It’s a kind of salvation.

… her eyes icy blue, with the look of someone who has achieved blindness by an act of will and means to keep it.

 

 

The ugly girl’s peculiar eyes were still on her…

… looking at her as if she had known and disliked her all her life–all of Mrs. Turpin’s life, it seemed too…

Sharpness of vision is a leitmotif in O’Connor’s work and essays.  For her, the Christian writer has the sharpest vision, “the sharpest eyes for the grotesque.”  Her characters’ eyesight or lack of vision is symbolic of their spiritual insight or lack thereof.  She truly writes about the “blind, the halt and the maimed.”