A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

Flannery O’Connor’s, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, relies on the Southern Gothic genre, specifically emphasizing the grotesque nature of humanity through the main characters. The grandmother and the Misfit, share a strange connection, which is made apparent through their confrontation. The thematic peak of the story includes an offer of grace delivered by The Misfit and the grandmother's recognition of that gift as a result of the epiphany she encounters just before her death. In this story, through allusion and imagery we perceive the grandmother’s Catholic origins and through conflict and ironic metaphor we observe her relationship with The Misfit as having parallels to the story of Jesus. O’Connor’s short story demonstrates that those in

Flannery O’Connor was one of the names most closely related with the southern grotesque type of literature and very frequently, the American south is one of the key characters in her stories. The actually grotesque violence in the story is the whole family being brutally killed. In the words of researcher Armond Boudreaux, “O’Connor stories follow the same basic plot: a proud main character, often bigoted and usually a woman, finds redemption when an act of violence is committed against her” (150-152). This quote demonstrates how the redemption of the grandmother was expected before her death because the way O’Connor wrote her

Upon seeing this image, she comprehends that to be truly Christ like, she is going to have to forgive the Misfit and accept him as God’s child. As Susan Petit stated, “Close consideration shows many important parallels between the grandmother… on the one hand and the Misfit…” (3). At this stage, the Misfit also has a revelation. His message, however, is that by murdering the grandmother, he helped out her find God and therefore comprehends that he does have an objective in the world that he will have to answer to an upper power. Author, Flannery O'Connor was deeply worried about the values and the direction of the youth of her time. She assumed that Christ was no longer sufficient of a priority to the people of her generation. Countless critics support that salvation is the major subject of this piece, and although it does show the salvation of a morally immoral figure, the representation of that salvation derives from a man committing the final act of violence against a lady. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" represents Flannery O'Connor's main concern for the priorities and ethics of the