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

Books have a great way to somewhat be able to put yourself in someone else 's shoes. It is interesting how a short story can have so much relevance to a normal persons everyday life, to some extent that is. “ A Good Man is Hard To Find” is a short story, and too sum it up shortly, it is about people who live their lives mostly filled with hate and ignorance and realizing that was the wrong way too live, just a tad bit too late. Flannery O’Connor is the author of this short story. The story is about a family who doesn 't really seem to be all that wonderful. The grandma is rather loud and seems to be pretty judgmental. Not only is she both of those things, she is also a huge liar and a racist. The rest of the family doesn 't fall far from …show more content…
The misfit gunman, who is headed down a dark path. The “perfect grandma” who “does no wrong" is on the wrong path as well. Better too say they are all on the wrong path. So maybe O’Conner is giving us all a life lesson. Maybe a warning to people who are judgmental, closed minded, and shallow. As well as those downright criminals. Maybe O’Conner is trying to express that maybe we are all in the same boat, wether its being a murder, or just an all around shitty person. Everybody is flawed. Nobody is …show more content…
Some it happens sooner than expected, like this short story. From my understanding is at the end the family was disappointed in themselves in the way they all choose to live their lives. Why choose too live a dark and negative life style when you have the same exact chance too live a positive and happy lifestyle. Most people would say they live a happy and positive life style, but only in the end they find out themselves, they haven 't lived the life they had hoped of dreaming. Another message from this short story, is maybe the misfit, has his own way of thinking. His own little twisted, crazy, criminal logic. He was killing to have happiness in his own crazy bizarre way of life. He came to the view of life from being in prison. He felt he was wrongfully put in prison. After rotting in a jail for so long he trained his mindset to be the way it was when he got released. If the system wanted too look at him as a killer, fine so be it, going out and killing made him happy in his eyes because that is what the system made him out too be. That also relates to a highly talked about question, Is our justice system truly fair? Do people go into prison a better person than compared to when they come out. Im not saying go out and kill somebody because it will make you happy, O’Conner isn 't saying that exactly either. What O’Conner is saying, from what myself have read, is do what makes you as an individual happy. In the end that is all it