Judgement Day (short story)

"Judgement Day" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. It was the last story O'Connor ever wrote: she was dying of lupus at the time of writing, and submitted it to her publisher Robert Giroux a month before her death in August 1964.

"Judgement Day" is an expanded version of O'Connor's 1947 masters' thesis story, "The Geranium", and Giroux remarked that the earlier story was a personal favorite of O'Connor's. Like "The Geranium", "Judgement Day" tells the story of an elderly white Southern man who has trouble adjusting to the relative racial equality of New York City. However, it adds religious overtones and a more thorough commentary on race relations, paralleling O'Connor's 1961 story "Everything That Rises Must Converge".