Hard To Find Religion

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” tells a twisted story of a typical family going about a road trip embedded with ethical pit stops along the way. The story revolves around a cynical grandmother and how her unconventional attitude and habits set the stage for an interesting turn of events. Through manipulative antics, a prejudice character and an ironic story line, author Flannery O’Conner creates a captivating tale that shines a lights on readers’ own moral codes. The author does this by making an example of a woman completely unaware of her own immoral acts.

Flannery O’Connor’s story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” shows a family vacation to Florida that ends in tragedy. The major characters in the story include the grandmother; Bailey, her son, his wife, the children’s mother, and the two children, John Wesley, and June Star. Other characters include Red Sammy, his wife, the Misfit, and his two accomplices. Although the grandmother plays the leading role in the story, the actions of other characters, some innate, also play a role in the family problem.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor is a short story that depicts a family's vacation to Florida that turned into an abysmal tragedy when they met with the Misfit, a convict who escaped from prison. This story is meant to be interpreted as a parable, whereby O'Connor made skilful use of symbolism to bring about messages such as the class-consciousness and the lack of spiritual faith that exist amongst human.

Taking place during a family road trip to Florida, Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” illustrates how an individual's morals may change when they are put into a life-altering situation. The incorporation of imagery and tone proves vital as it depicts the characters and the environment as a metaphorical vehicle to help the reader understand how characters in the story develop their personalities and outlooks on life. With the use of allusions and symbolism, the reader becomes aware of how the grandmother and Misfit’s experiences with religion allow their morals to develop and dictate how an individual's life should be lived. O'Connor's incorporation of irony allows the reader to analyze the grandmother's actions and

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a literary piece that strategically intertwines her strong religious Roman Catholic upbringing and her work. As with her other pieces, O’Connor’s incorporation of religion allows the reader to interpret her short stories on a broader scale. One of her famous literary techniques is to combine her religious beliefs with foreshadowing as a way to prepare the reader for what is to come next. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a perfect example of how O’Connor uses these techniques in her short stories. However, intertwining religion is not the only thing that O’Connor was good at. When it comes to incorporating themes in her short stories,

In my analysis of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, I will examine the different elements of this piece of literature and break the subject down into its component parts. I also plan to provide evident that O’Connor uses religion as the theme for her short story using several examples of foreshadowing and symbolic throughout her story. After reading the story more than once, I notice some interesting quotes that will back-up my claims that O’Connor’s story is about something that must do with spiritual and religion.

Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” focuses on the contrast between “good” and “evil.” Through the characterization of the Grandmother and The Misfit, O’Connor reveals that in reality there are no drastic differences between the two, only that one has already come to accept his fate and the other is still blinded by her own selfish ways. From the beginning, the true nature of the Grandmother begins to unfold. It is evident that she will say just about anything to get her way, only she’ll do it in a manner that illustrates her as one whose sole purpose is to look out for her family, “See here...this fellow that calls himself the misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida… I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal aloose like that… I couldn’t answer to my own conscience if I did.”(117) O’Connor’s use of the word “conscience” leads the reader to believe that the Grandmother has good morals and values, but upon further investigation it’s evident that this “good” only runs so deep. At first glance, this moment can be perceived as one filled with sincere fear on the grandmothers part, however, the chances of the family actually running into a loose criminal on a family road trip is one in a million. Which leads to the conclusion that the Grandmothers sole intention is to scare her son into submission, so that she may go to Tennessee to visit her old friends. Nearing the end of the family’s life, the Grandmother’s

Flannery O’Conner’s short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” illustrates a family vacation rapidly gone bad when the family encounters a vicious end by an escaped criminal known as “The Misfit”. The story includes a family of five; a husband, wife and three kids, and the Grandmother. The family has planned to take a trip to Florida, but the Grandmother argues that East Tennessee would be better as a recent criminal escaped from Florida, but no other family member views it as a big deal. Much like the title exemplifies, the men in this short story are very irritable, sexist and even worse, killers. While the story conveys that a good man is truly hard to find, O’Conner displays “The Misfit” to be a catastrophic character. The main idea of the story quickly becomes about redemption as the Grandmother tries to introduce faith and religion to “The Misfit” in order from him to turn his life around. But while the Grandmother is fighting this battle, the redemption story naturally brings light to the story’s treatment of women. The female characters within this story obey a male-controlled view of how women should live their life and what actions they should perform. At the conclusion of the story, the story advises that all women must be redeemed, and the only way to do so is with the help from a “good man.”

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a short story written by Flannery O’ Connor. O’Connor was an American writer whose writings always incorporated humor into a sad or devastating situation. Her collections include 31 short stories, two novels, and a couple of letters and speeches. O’Connor is most famous for her short story works. In numerous works of her, her conscious craftsmanship was revealed and also the devoted role that Roman Catholicism plays in her life (Flannery)

Flannery O’Connor’s personal views on the justification of religion and the resulting world or corruption and depravity are apparent in her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. She analyzes the basic plight of human existence and its conflict with religious conviction. The first two-thirds of the narrative set the stage for the grandmother, representing traditional Christian beliefs, to collide with The Misfit, representing modern scientific beliefs. The core of symbolism and the magnet for interpretation is at the end, the conversation between the grandmother and The Misfit. The conversation represents the examination of the clash between animal and metaphysical human

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” retells a story of all the evil in this world and how hard it is to find a good person. By creating strong characters and using figurative language and literary techniques, O’Connor leaves the reader

In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, spirituality and grace is the underlying theme as much of her works reveals. Without this premise most of her work would be impossible to interpret and understand. With her Christian background at the forefront, the reader can interpret and synthesis her story out rightly. In life’s spiritual journey it often takes a personal crisis to awaken the spiritual senses. On the mission to eternal spiritual truths, the crises encountered, despite their threatening outward concealments, take on a lesser significance than the spiritual truths that these crises often unearth. These interpretations truly describe the journey that the grandmother takes in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” and the faith embodied by the characters and their experiences.

O’Connor uses the setting of the story to illustrate the theme of good versus evil. Upon meeting the Misfit he mentioned that he “‘[doesn’t] see no sun [or clouds],’”and the grandmother responds by stating “‘it’s a

The short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O` Connor has been agreed by many to be about herself and her Christian faith. It is difficult to understand the story without keeping in focus her Christian background. A lot of critics seems to focus mostly on the religious aspect of the story without analyzing other themes which was masked by O’Connor. My thesis will focus on the religion, allusion and characterization of O’Connor’s short story. The two main characters in the story was “Grandmother” and “Misfit” the grandmother was described as someone with a strong religious and moral values who even at death atoned for her selfish behaviors by reaching out a Christ like gesture to misfit, “he is one of my children” (161).

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.