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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Character Analysis

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Pride is the topic expressed in both “A Good Man is Hard to Find “by Flannery O’Connor and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. The grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Mrs. Loisel in “The Necklace” are the main characters. They would not admit to themselves that they made a mistake and affected those loved ones in their life. Instead of admitting they have been wrong their pride caused both different consequences; however, their lives were ruined because of pride. The grandmother and Mrs. Loisel were both driven by selfish-motivation throughout the stories. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the setting is probably around the 1940’s or 1950’s after WII because there isn’t a mention of a war, the grandmother gives us a clue of the time when she mentions” the way Europe acted you would think we were made of money. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” The grandmother manipulates her family into going to a place for her own convince just to see a certain house again. The grandmother tells her family “There was a secret panel in this house she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing she were.” The grandmother’s son Bailey wanted to go to Florida, to convince him, she informed him that a misfit is on the loose headed to Florida and she would never bring her family at risk of danger. The grandmother realized that the house was not in Tennessee and she preferred to keep quiet and not admit she was wrong. The irony is that the grandmother did exactly just

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