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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Point Of View

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For my final paper I decided to think outside the box and go with point of view because not a lot of people chose that. I like being the odd man out and trying new things so I decided to look at the difference of perspectives which pertains to the main characters in Greenleaf, Mrs. May vs. the scrub bull and in A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandma vs. the Misfit. The claim that I will make in Greenleaf and A Good Man is Hard to Find, is that hidden meanings in the short stories show that the protagonist and antagonist differentiate in a matter of perspective and here is why.
In the short story Greenleaf by Flannery O'Connor throughout the whole story Mrs. May constantly complains about this scrub bull that has been eating all her shrubbery. She gets so upset with the animal that she decides she wants Mr. Greenleaf to kill …show more content…

There is a hidden meaning of different perspectives that maybe people wouldn't think of, an example is when the mischief kills the grandma and, “…he put his gun down on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.” (O’Connor “A Good” 211). This is where the slang “four eyes” originated and is presented again because of the spectacles worn by the Misfit. His set of spectacles and personal eyes are two sets of objects that help demonstrate the different point of views in A Good Man is Hard to Find. For example the fact that the Misfit cleaned his glasses after killing the grandmother like nothing was wrong demonstrates how evil he is. He's so used to killing now it doesn’t even phase him and he doesn't see anything wrong with his actions. However, everything that happened is the grandma’s worse nightmare and she's terrified for no only her life but also her family's. Again showing the two point of views, the different perspectives, and the two reasons why everything happened how it did just like the previous short story

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