"Virtuously dull"? Really?

Fifty years later, we can concede both that Harper Lee's novel inspired a generation of adolescents and that Flannery O'Connor was right.

We will begin this novel later in the week. It will be my fourth time reading it; my second, teaching it. I'm going to confine my response to the linked WSJ piece to one remark: I thoroughly agree with O'Connor's observation: "It's interesting that all the folks that are buying it don't know they are reading a children's book."