‘The Crop’ by Flannery O’Connor: Short Story Analysis ‘The Crop’ is a Southern Gothic short story penned by American writer Flannery O’Connor. It is one of six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis, The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories. Willie, a grotesque and mysterious woman, begins writing her sharecropper's story, but ultimately enters the world of … [Read more...] about ‘The Crop’ by Flannery O’Connor: Short Story Analysis