Flannery was not from around here and she wanted to make sure we knew it.  Many of her characters are also just barely comfortable in the visible world and many do not realize why they are so ill at ease here.  Mrs. Shortley only enters her true country when she has a stroke, Haze tries living in Eastrod, Taulkinham, his car, at Mrs. Flood’s… but only at the end does he really make it “home.”