In A Good Man is Hard to Find, we encounter a variety of characters with different characteristic. There is two characters who really stand out, one of them is, The Misfit, an unnamed character who has just escaped from the federal …show more content…
In The Guest, there are various symbols. One example of symbolism that is illustrated in both stories is moral principle, which can be symbolized that they deem themselves as a good person, for entirely different reasons. For example, the Arab, In The Guest, is given a chance to go off and be free, but instead he decides to go to prison, where he knows that he will be punished for the crimes he has committed. Even though he has committed a crime, he is still a good person, the fact that he decides to go back to prison and not be free, shows how much dignity he has. While in a Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Misfit, as said in the story “ Daddy was a card himself, you could put anything over on him. He never got in trouble with the Authorities”(O’connor) looked up to his father, like a normal kid would do. This tells the reader that, at one point in The MIsfits life he was just a normal kid, but then a tragic happened, which carried him onto a bad …show more content…
The narrator in The Guest was able to make a choice of will. He learned from Daru, that a person should be allowed to make a choice for themselves ignoring their flaws. In A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the Grandmother was forced to understand her own flaws under a crucial circumstance. This shows the opinions of these two authors: good and evil are not mutually exclusive in an individual. Even in these two very different works of literature, it is clear that as humans we have the right to change out path prior to the mistakes that we have committed in the