1.""Her mother, like many of O'Connor's characters, is a self-satisfied, platitudinous woman who "had no bad qualities of her own but...was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack(272)"(342)
2:My Guess: Since she has a history of referring to her mother as a sort of hovering obsessive mother and since this statement is saying that her mother is content with her self it may mean some form of contentment.
3. Definition: Dictionary.com refers to platitudinous as staleness and trite or dull.
4.Explanation: My original thought was wrong, but now I see that she means O'Connors character's are self-satisfied with themselves and therefore since they may not feel they have anything to work on they can be considered dull and or flat.
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