A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O 'Connor certainly weaves a story depicting the theme of society and class through its, characters, foreshadowing , tone, and diction , help to invoke the boundaries of society and social class through the changing era. O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find follows a family divided in age and era, after their family vacations takes a dark turn down a dirt path.
At the beginning stages of O’Connor’s story we are introduced to our characters, Bailey (the father), June Star (the daughter), John Wesley (the son), the mother, the baby, and the focal point of the story the grandmother. We learn the names of all the characters except the grandmother and the mother, which is particularly odd considering the reader is introduced to most of the family. This dissolves the chance for any reader to assign an identity to the characters, while also allowing the character more accessible to the reader. Lets analyze the contrast between the grandmother and her grandchildren, June Star and John Wesley. The Grandmother
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O’Connors Diction and writing style is very plain, and simplistic. The diction is only surprising to us in this modern time because of the grandmothers diction with the use of words such as, “Pickaninny” (O’Connor 357), “Little niggers” (O’Connor 357). This kind of language is only shocking to us because we don 't tolerate these racial slurs today but during the grandmothers time this was normal conversation language among the aristocracy we speculate she came from. O 'Connor 's writing style is very simplistic, often a subject and a verb sometimes a modifier, This allows her to her to fully embrace her characters and introduce the humor that she often does with ease.
In conclusion A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor tells the story of family who meets a tragic end while using characterization, foreshadowing, tone, and diction to establish a common theme of social class which is apparent throughout her