奥康纳在《慧血》中塑造了主人公黑兹尔·莫茨,通过他的语言和行为讽刺新教社会,她认为现代社会把资本和商品奉若神明,人们不是对上帝虔诚而是对消费和利润敬畏。奥康纳采用极端写作手法批评虚假信仰,这种虚假信仰对奥康纳认可的宗教信仰形式是一个现存的威胁。商品和资本被奉为神圣,基督教和上帝被无情地利用和商品化。 O’Connor created the protagonist Hazel Moth in “The Blood of Grace,” who satirizes the Protestant society through his language and behavior. She believes that in modern society, capital and goods are enshrined in the gods. People are not devout to God but to consumption and Profit awesome. O’Connor uses extreme writing techniques to criticize false beliefs that are an ongoing threat to O’Connor’s accredited form of religion. Commodities and capital are regarded as holy, and Christianity and God are ruthlessly utilized and commercialized.