Through the development of the story, readers may draw the conclusion that there is no straightforward answer to what is good and evil in the world. The grandmother is a pretentious character who considers herself as a moral lady with a faithful belief in Christianity, However, she only cares about herself and pretends to be considerate of others. In the beginning of the story, she uses the report about the Misfit to try to convince her family not to go to Florida for vacation. She tells Bailey, her son, “ I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did”(O’Connor, 9).
Knowing O’Connor’s religious background will help in deconstructing the two main characters in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. Flannery O’Connor was a Christian. This is not an unbelievable thought since she grew up in the southern Bible Belt, but what can be thought of as unbelievable to some is that O’Connor was a Christian fiction writer and reading her work numerous times one would have no clue about this. She did not write in a way that was “holier than thou”, she wrote in the way of the world, through the eyes of the common man. O’Connor’s thought was that a man or woman did not want to have a story written that gave everything away, she wrote in the same way that she thought about being a good Christian, which was to make the reader
In her introduction she starts with the issue of women identification. The way I see women identification is very much different then she sees it. What I understood from the introduction is she made clear sense about the complication of social and real identity. Trinh T. Minh-Ha is saying women often find out a separate identity, but it always get stuck with the social construction and social “secondhand” memory. If women try to explain herself it becomes very complex with unclear ideas because of cultural codes, representations and then the sense of real identity lose its words.
The ladies of Maycomb are very significant as it shows the ladies’ attitude and beliefs in their own sense of being good Christians and at the same time revealing their hypocrisy and bigotry. ‘I tell you Gertrude, you never ought to go let and opportunity go by to witness for the Lord’. Mrs Merriweather, like the other ladies, believe it is Christian duty to remind the ‘darkies’ of behaving in a Christian way as when she tells Sophy ‘you simply are not being a Christian today’ They view Maycomb as a Christian town with Christian folks but this does not include the black people. The ladies believe that Tom’s wife needs the help of the church to lead a Christian life. That she needs their forgiveness before she can move on in life.
In contrast, Creon is left shattered and ironically without family, having lost command of events after being so determined to remain in control. I suppose Perhaps Antigone was kind of over-reactedreacts. Before Antigone chooses to die, I highly appreciate her courage and responsibility, yet. But when I know she is going to kill herself, I begin to wander wonder about her inner thoughts. Maybe what Antigone cherished cherishes most was is her position of loving justice rathermore than her own brother.
Although her tired son may have a good soul, he is not a good man in the sense he seems tired and lifeless in the story. When the grandmother selfishly wanted to take the family
Throughout the story, Hulga’s, self-esteem issues contributes to her changing her biological name from Joy to Hulga. She did not feel beautiful enough to be called Joy. Despite her believing in nothing, she did get her higher education and placed herself above the rest of society. O’Connor present the complexities of “comedy and Satire” in the most compelling manner. While the apparent reason of the story conveys Hulga wooden leg, there was another significant part of symbolism which came into view with the Bible salesman, Manley Pointer.
Although the parents of the poor Kara Neumann believed in a religion in which did not believe in hospitals or any healing other than through faith, I still believe that a child’s health is more important than religion. There was even a quote stating, “Jesus never send anyone to a doctor or a hospital…” reading this quote actually kind of hurts me. People who think that Jesus could have or still does tell people to do things I personally believe they are very closed minded. Many people like that believe that their religion is true and all others are fake, but who are they to tell other people that they are wrong in what they believe. Believing that Jesus could “talk” to someone and tell them to go to the hospital is ridiculous because he is unable to actually contact
Religion is something that has been losing its strength throughout the years. In the story A Good Man Is Hard To Find this idea is very important. While the main character tries to use religion to save herself, the antagonist questions it. The first character in the store is the grandmother. She is an annoying woman who comes off immediately as selfish and uncaring of other people and their own desires.
She was happy I interviewed her because she was dying to tell someone and couldn’t tell her sons or friends that she cyberstalked the two men she had been engaged to. She found a lot of history about them and was excited to see they had done well in their lives. As for the priority in Barbara’s life, it is definitely being a Christian Scientist, as she has been all of her life. She only now uses one medicine for her heart but hasn’t used medicine or doctors much throughout her life as part of her religion. Her morals are based on everything in the bible.