A Good Man Is Hard To Find Southern Gothic

Flannery O’Connor is a Southern Gothic writer and the author of the tale “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” This story is based off of a real man named The Misfit, a serial killer that kills a family quit hysterically. Flannery O’Connor style in the Southern Gothic tale “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is characterized by bizarre characters, a southern setting, violence, and the occasional racial display. O’Connor’s work, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, is a plot driven hysterical piece of art. A family consisting of six people; a grandmother, a mother and father, two children, and a baby, are planning a trip. We can forget the cat, the secondary cause of the story and its outcome. Bailey, the father and son of the grandmother decided to go to Florida,

It has the basic characteristic such as a southern setting, a crime with a bizarre character, and even some racial display with the south’s unwillingness to change. A sinister event is the heart of the story, and religion was almost the resolution. The story takes place in deep south with some outrageous actions and characters. The character of the grandmother herself is a bizarre character with the traits of antimeres. The grandmother thought the house she was looking for was in Georgia but it was actually in Tennessee. “…the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (145). Because of her, the whole family died, she brought the cat causing the wreck, and she made him go down a road leading to god knows where. The Misfit is also a bizarre character with his willingness to kill attitude and the lack of remorse for doing it. “… he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.”(152). He doesn’t even think of what he has done as being wrong, he just goes about his business. The story of course has a sinister event, and the crime in this story is murder by the Misfit. The Misfit kills the family, and the grandmother try’s to save herself using religion. She tries to get him to pray and she talks about his mother, and how good he really is. The story also show the trait of the souths’ unwillingness to change. The grandmother talks of how the world isn’t as good as it use to be and that we have changed a lot. Even Red Sam talks about the good ol’ days. “I remember the day; you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more.”(142). The south just isn’t the same as it use to be, and the older people in it just don’t like