Literary Techniques In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

The many twist and turns of O’ Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” leaves readers perplexed when they think about all the different possibilities and meanings to the story. O’ Connor left us waiting for a happily ever after that didn’t quite come out the way we expected it to, which is what made the story so intriguing. In a “Good Man Is Hard to Find”, Flannery O’ Connor uses literary techniques such as foreshadowing, imagery and irony to create abnormal characters and a twisted plot that many view as a moment of grace, but how? The big question about the end of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” has to do with the fact that the grandmother calls the Misfit her child and tries to reach out to him. So what exactly does this gesture mean? Learning

The Misfit kills the grandmother, even though it doesn’t feel right to him, but the grandmother had already had her minute of forgiveness and redemption, and she grew more spiritual during her last dying moments than she had her whole life.” The grandmother who half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child’s and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky.” (Page 149) At the end her acts of kindness might have changed the Misfit too. “She would have been a good woman, “The Misfit said, “If it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” (Page 150) This line shows that the grandmother got her redemption by confronting the Misfit’s evil, and being able to feel sorry for him. The Misfit recognized her kindness, even though he backed away from it. He also goes from saying that the only real pleasure in life is “meanness” to stating that it’s “no real pleasure in life.”(Page 150) Killing the grandmother troubles him. So this moment of grace worked on him too, and there might be some changes in his character. O’Connor developed a very inspiring story by using grace and a few unlucky characters to inform us about the Christ-haunted