The Peeler

"The Peeler" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor.

It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories.

It was eventually incorporated into her novel, Wise Blood.

The story describes a young man, Hazel Motes, encountering a man selling potato peelers on the street who is interrupted by a blind man and his daughter who are handing out religious tracts.

Motes also encounters Enoch Emery, a young man who seems to parallel himself, and they follow the blind man down the street.