Summary Of A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

Mary Flannery O’Connor was a writer who incorporated a broken character, such as the Grandmother, into many of her stories. Mary Flannery O’Connor started the publication of her short stories in 1946 and her first novel in 1952, Wise Blood(O’Connor). Although O’Connor died in 1964, a series of letters she had written were published in 1979 as The Habit of Being(O’Connor). O’Connor was a southern gothic writer who portrayed messages in her stories other writers were scared to; she did this because she had been diagnosed with Lupus and knew she was going to die soon. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is an example of one of O’Connor’s stories featuring a broken character. The source states, “American novelist and short-story writer whose works, usually set in the rural South and often depicting human alienation, are concerned with the relationship between the

This quote is directly related to “A Good Man is Hard to Find” because the grandmother in the short story is a broken individual and at the end of the story O’Connor focuses on that and the Grandmother’s relationship with God. Flannery O’Connor incorporates broken characters into most of her novels and short stories to show that humans are not perfect creatures. O’Connor’s writing is real and depicts actual problems in human lives, unlike many novels and short stories during her time, 1925 to 1964. The Misfit in, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, rescues the Grandmother. The Misfit made the Grandmother realize that she could not save herself. In the last minutes of the Grandmother’s life she tries to persuade the Misfit not to kill her and has a sudden epiphany. The story states, “ She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going