In short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor gives her views about what we generally use to identify a person as either being good or bad. In the story, O’Connor uses the grandmother’s view of what a good person is, providing a vague definition of what differentiates a good man or woman from the rest. She is suggesting in this case that the qualities of a good man or a good woman include being respectful, polite and truthful, which are qualities identifiable with the Christian way of life that much of O’Connor’s works allude to (Ochshorn, 1990; Kirszner and Mandell, 2012). Although Red Sammy fakes being friendly, the grandmother still describes him as being a good man. Red Sammy has faked this friendliness and had created nostalgia to help his business (Curley, 2013). The definition is revealed when Red Sammy is annoyed and has criticized how untrustworthy human beings can be as he describes the two fellows who came driving in a Chrysler.
To Red Sammy’s expectations, for instance, the car was old and upbeat though it was a good one and the boys
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A symbol is an object or person or even an action that is used to represent another in a more complex meaning (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). In short story “Everyday Use,” Walker uses some symbols in a way that represents more than their literal meaning. To begin with, the Butter Churn has been used as a symbol within this story. It is a symbol that represents the manner in which people should live in the perspective of the mother, although to Dee, it is simply an object of art that does not represent anything (Kirszner & Mandell,