The family has no real connection or love up until they come across the Misfit and his gang of murderers. When the Grandmother says at the end, "You're one of my children," she makes the first connection in the story (O’Connery 152). In O’Connor’s stories all are sinners, but she believes that they can all be saved even the worst of them. Most stories by O’Connor have religion and in “a good man is hard to find” she utilizes someone’s “last words” to show that even in the end religion is still there. In the story “a good man is hard to find” the author uses the theme as well as the setting to show some aspects of religion in her
O’Conner creates a crazy grandmother who unfortunately causes the bad situation. O’Conner creates a sick and dark character in “The Misfit”. “The Misfit” seems to be mentally ill seeing as everything he say contradicts his self. He is respectful however O’Conner’s readers never know if it is sarcastic or not. The grandmother tries to bring out the good in “The Misfit” to save her own life but it never comes.
A Good Man is Hard to Find Analysis In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," O'Connor exposes a happy-seeming family to unexpected and graphic horror. The family sets out with the intent to enjoy a vacation, but ends up being blindsided by fate. This is similar to O'Connor's own life story, with her unexpectedly losing a parent at a young age. The story's protagonist is a woman that is obsessed with the past, and it would be easy to understand how a woman who lost her father at the age of fifteen not being able to fully recover from the trauma. However, O'Connor didn't intend to represent herself through the Grandmother, since the old woman displays many negative character traits such as arrogance and stupidity.
Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a story about a southern family and their conflict they are faced with while driving down south to Florida. Morals are challenged face to face at its finest in this short story when two very different groups of people happen to cross paths resulting in a tragedy. The grandmother in the story consistently uses the word “good” many times throughout the story, specifically when she tells Red Sammy he is a good man and of course the Misfits also. The word good was used for the wrong meaning by the grandmother; Her judgment was poor and unwise which ended up costing her family and herself their lives. People are all different in their own ways, not everyone has the same perspectives on life and moral
Curtis Vreen Dr. Harun Thomas ENC1102 30 NOV 11 The Living Dead We all must make difficult decisions when we face ethical situations, ones that guide our conduct, challenge us to determine between right and wrong, and allows us to question our motives. In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a grandmother who is on vacation with her family faces an ethical situation in which she tries to persuade her antagonist, the Misfit, to make the right ethical decision. In James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”, the protagonist, a young man named Sonny, must face ethical decisions and situations because no matter how confident he is with his music, he still feels he needs drugs in order to cope with the everyday life of Harlem.
The Good, the Misfit, and the Grandmother The concept of what makes a “good” person has been the subject of much debate. Such is the case in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the main character, the grandmother, struggles to find the qualities of a good person both in others and in herself. O’Connor uses literary elements such as flashback and characterization to explore what it means to be a good person. It appears as the only good person in the story is the person the grandmother becomes through her struggle with the Misfit. O’Connor seems to suggest that only through conflict of religion can the “good” be found.
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck argues that being loyal is a valuable concept in life, but can sometimes be very difficult. His message is sometimes in relationships, everything can go the wrong way and you have nothing else to do except the right thing, even if it isn’t being loyal. Since Lennie didn’t know allot of things about life and common sense, George is forced to teach him everything. Sitting down by the river after running away from their job because of Lennie again, a pissed off George yells, “Well, we ain’t got any, whatever we ain’t got that’s what you want.” (11) Lennie’s lack of intelligence and his actions repeatedly effect their job security. George is not only forced to deal with the consequences of these actions but be takes them on as his own
September 10, 2012 Standing Your Ground in Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” In Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother is a main character in the story whose moral value is revealed later to be little to none. The grandmother keeps referring herself to being a “lady” even though throughout the story she is very self-centered, and stubborn, wanting things done her way. In the beginning, she is eager to show how she feels against the family taking vacation to Florida. Instead she wants to travel to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee. While traveling, the grandmother is best dressed from head to toe with her collars and cuffs being white organdy trimmed with lace, so in case of an accident she would be seen
The real misfit !! In Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” she identifies hat the fugitative is the misfit although the grandmother is more likely to be the misfit. It seems as like the family doesn't like her, and she is the oldest on the road trip. For instance it says in the story when she tries to tell bailey and the children's mother that is a bad Idea to go to Florida because of the fugitive that is loose going to Florida. When she was trying to tell every one about the fugitive they acted like they couldn’t hear her for instance in the “ The grandmother when she showed her son Bailey the newspaper about the fugitive he just continued to to his reading ignoring the grandmother.
Karron Scott English Composition A Good Man is Hard To Find 9/5/2013 What’s great about this story is the way that the author, Flannery O’ Connor, utilizes the use of religious symbolism, which is very apparent in this story. The use of the O Connor’s words, imagery, phrases is what grabs the readers’ attention. The beginning of the story starts off with the grandmother trying to convince Bailey (her son) and his family not to take the road trip to Florida. The grandmother does complain a lot, mainly due to her wanting to visit friends in east Tennessee. The grandmother then brings up the topic after noting an article about an escaped convict called “The Misfit” who was heading in the same destination, which was Florida.