After reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” I was inspired to do more research on Flannery O’Connor. The two short stories we have had to read in the past week, have been my first encounter with her works. I was aware that she was a Christian writer, so I was not surprised when I saw that we would be reading her. However, she has surprised me quite a bit through her writing. I found it interesting that O’Connor spent much of her life in Georgia. In my experience, most southern artists either depict their native state positively or negative. I suppose this could be said about any hometown. However, I find it more prominent from those who grew up in the south. I believe this is largely influenced by the South’s history as an entity of the United