A Good Man Is Hard To Find Literary Analysis

Flannery O 'Connor was an author who wrote about an abundance of people with various backgrounds using characterization. She incorporated aspects of all cultures and personalities into her works. The Southern Gothic piece she wrote called “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” showed how human beings work with one another in society, while each of them is their own person with different characteristics. She told about how other people are generally not as easy to communicate with and that no one is the same as another psychologically. In Flannery’s quote, “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful”, she shows how she sees people which influences her writing of the different types of characters in this book and their adaptations to change. Each person has their own beliefs and values that makes them who they are, which means that what one person considers “a good man”, others may not think the same of him. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” was an ever changing piece of literature to read. There were ups and downs like a rollercoaster throughout the whole story, from beginning to end. The story starts out with a extended family living together for a while and deciding to go on vacation, however,

For instance, The Misfit, a man who escaped from jail, seems to not have any feelings in the beginning. He claims to not know why he was in jail and seems to have some trauma in his background so he takes it out on various people. When he comes upon a crashed vehicle in the ditch with a family calling for help, he decides to go meet with them. Once he meets with the victims of the accident, he figures he will kill them instead for absolutely no reason. However, after he sentences the family to be killed, he realizes “It’s no real pleasure in life” (O’Connor 377) to kill anyone anymore and ends up changing for the