Examples Of Misfit In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

The grandmother believes The Misfit is “good” because he will not shoot a lady, which is a denial in her faith to keep her moral principles. Her theory proves to be false. The only thing “good” about the Misfit is his uniformity in living out his moral cipher of there is no pleasure but meanness in life.

In the short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find, written by Flannery O’Connor, the theme that the definition of a ‘good man’ is mysterious and flawed is apparent. The reader must realize that it is difficult to universalize the definition of a good man because every person goes through different experiences. Thus, these experiences affect his or her viewpoint and in turn flaw ones view on a good man. O’Connor conveys this theme through her excellent use of diction, imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism as well as through a creative use of repetition and an omniscient point of view.

I’ll give you all the money I’ve got!” (O’Connor 355). She is pleading the Misfit for her life only by saying the word lady repeatedly and offering him the money. She is also praising the Misfit by calling him a good man and trying to save her life. She was also careless about her family. When her family is taken down into the woods, she continues to talk to Misfit. She ignores the sound of when her son and rest of the family were being shot. She is apparently oblivious to many things. She was ignoring everything but the Misfit. “The shirt came flying at him and landed on his shoulders and he put it on. The grandmother couldn’t name what the shirt reminded her of” (O’Connor 354). The grandmother doesn’t even realize that shirt was her son Baileys. She had no interest in knowing where that shirt came from and what happened to my family. For the concern of her life only, she tries to persuade the Misfit the same way she tried with her family. “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!” (O’Connor 352). She is trying to manipulate the Misfit and hopes that he will bear her. She is thinking about no one else but the sake for herself. However she fails once again to influence the Misfit.

She only proceeds to call the misfit a good person once she figures out the man she is speaking to is indeed the misfit and in a way begs for her life by calling him a good man. The misfit is unshaken by her comments as he needs to protect himself over the lives of a whole family.

They are having a great time, and Buddy feels “warm and sparky as those crumbling logs, carefree as the wind in the chimney. [His] friend waltzes around the stove, the hem of her poor calico skirt pinched between her fingers as though it were a party dress” (Capote 4). This quote shows that they are having a great time while having a bit of innocent alcohol. However, once two of their relatives come, they ruin it all. They are described as “Very angry. Potent eyes that scold, tongues that scald … [they words they say are] tumbling together into a wrathful tune” (4)! The imagery in this quote shows how furious and frustrated they are with the two friends. This proves that even though the two friends are having a bit of innocent fun, the two relatives ruin it and make them feel

The Misfit was sympathetic towards the family after they had their wreck. Sympathetic means feeling, showing, and expressing compassion towards another in times of destitution. O’Connor makes this possible

Character Analysis of Misfits in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” Flannery O'Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find is a southern gothic style of literature with grotesque characters. This story by O’Connor takes place in the American south where the characters appear to be very normal but they have a very deep side hidden to them. The character, The Misfit, is a great example to the case.

She does not say anything to her son because she is afraid to get him mad. She keeps quite as they continue to make their way to Florida. They get into an accident where the children mother breaks her shoulder. No one else is hurt. As they wait for help, a car passes by and it's the Misfit with two of his buddies. The grandmother tells him that she recognizes him. She tries to convince him on how good of a man he is while his partners take the rest of the family away and shoot them.The Misfit talks with the grandmother about his religious doubts. In a moment of Christian sympathy, the grandmother informs the Misfit that he is one of her children. She continues to bring Jesus into her conversation and pretends to be a good judge of human nature. And when every tactic fails, she tells him that he is one of her children. He ends up shooting her. The story shows O'Connor’s theme of good and evil. The Misfit, a serial killer represented evil, while the grandmother tries to embody goodness. Prior to meeting the Misfit, however, the grandmother proved herself to be shallow and selfish.She shows a human being change and creates an effective scene in which God’s grace intervenes in the natural world.O’Conner mentions “that the old lady lacked comprehension, but that she had a good heart”

“You’re The Misfit!” she said. “I recognized you at once!” “Yes’m,” the man said, smiling slightly as if he were pleased in spite of himself to be known, “but it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t of reckernized me” (O’Connor 575). That is when the family’s road trip to Florida takes a turn for the worst.“A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a short story of a psychologically troubled young adult who seeks revenge on an innocent family. The Misfit is a character who has a great deal of psychological symbolism, who may have had childhood problems, and a character who has questionable moral truths.

does not waste any time as he asks one of his cronies to escort Bailey

In society violence is generally looked upon as evil because it is believed that no

Questioning the world as observers and contemplating what constitutes a moral code versus following the norm play a major role in self growth. The frustrating contradictions of one’s self-aware mind begin to unwind into its own understanding of what’s real and the illusion. Illusions can be underlined with beliefs, faith and perception of someone’s own experiences and mistakes. The Mistakes that are made throughout a lifetime are essential to understanding between right and wrong. They give Justice and the injustice actions the unclear and incoherent meaning of good from evil. Revelations made through learning from mistakes sometimes can come in the most inopportune times. Reading the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Conner gives a taste of the hypocrisy and selfishness of what the subconscious part of humanity can be. The lifeless taste of evil “The Misfit” twisted with the rudimentary philosophical good of the “grandmother” foreshadows humanity as a whole and independently. The story shows us the problematic mechanics in belief and faith with the blunt truth being as evil as it can be, due to lack of understanding of ones’ self. The grandmother is projected as a symbol of conscious good with the intentional norm humanity strives to be. Making her position throughout the story full of wisdom and righteousness through her illusion of what it means to be a lady. Only through a life threatening experience with the misfit

Even though Tom seems like a wonderful child, he is very mischievous and cunning. Aunt Polly was about to whip him when, “-the peril was desperate ‘ My! Look behind you, aunt!’” then, “The lad fled…” (Twain 2)

A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.) The convict scares the reader because of his proximity and grabbed Pip. The reader imagines him towering over him and yelling at him and threatening like a bully would. The last thing is how his sister is so abusive to pip and also joe.(My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had brought me up "by hand." Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.)this caught my eye because a lot of people can be abusive to their husband wife or

Miss Emelda in “Into My Parlour” tries to get gossip worthy information from her neighbor Miss Betty. It seems that people have been talking about Miss Betty’s nephew, Terrance, Miss Emelda says, “‘Yuh nephew was never one to be put playing with the fellas. I even uses to see him helping you sew and thing so too”’ (33). Miss Betty feels that she should have known better than to fall into the trap of Miss Emelda getting comfortable and trying to find out her business. Miss Emelda digs some more but Miss Betty does not budge thinking to herself she will not let Miss Emelda “get the best” of her (35). The thing is Miss