A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor is taken place in 1953 in Tennessee. The story revolves around a family of seven who are taking a vacation to Florida. Unfortunately for the family, a familiar criminal who calls himself the Misfit has absconded the penitentiary and is also heading for Florida. The author apprises the majority of her story through the grandmother’s eyes. Everything the audience learns about the characters are absorbed from the grandmother and her own opinions. O’Connor uses different forms of pathos, logos, and ethos to tell the story to the audience.
Since this story revolves around the 1950’s in the south, the style of writing reveals to the audience how prim and proper women used to be in the 50’s by telling what the grandmother is wearing which is a hat and white cotton gloves, so just in case she was to die people would know that she died “a lady”, and the vocabulary chosen has the southern drawl such as ma'am, lady, and Pop (O’Connor). The author’s message to her audience is the Grandmother’s epiphany she has while sitting in the trench trying to convince the Misfit not to kill her. The entire time the Grandmother’s life was not at all what she expected, she started preaching about God and telling the Misfit about how good of a man he probably is, only to realize that in this situation, no matter …show more content…
Although Misfit pauses and seems to ponder the thought of not killing her, the audience and Grandmother both know that her death is inevitable. Despite knowing she is going to die, she tells the Misfit how good of a man he is, and to just pray to God about everything that is going on in his life. The turning point for the audience, though, is when the Misfit says, “I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters” (O’Connor). This makes Grandmother’s inevitable death even more
Since this story revolves around the 1950’s in the south, the style of writing reveals to the audience how prim and proper women used to be in the 50’s by telling what the grandmother is wearing which is a hat and white cotton gloves, so just in case she was to die people would know that she died “a lady”, and the vocabulary chosen has the southern drawl such as ma'am, lady, and Pop (O’Connor). The author’s message to her audience is the Grandmother’s epiphany she has while sitting in the trench trying to convince the Misfit not to kill her. The entire time the Grandmother’s life was not at all what she expected, she started preaching about God and telling the Misfit about how good of a man he probably is, only to realize that in this situation, no matter …show more content…
Although Misfit pauses and seems to ponder the thought of not killing her, the audience and Grandmother both know that her death is inevitable. Despite knowing she is going to die, she tells the Misfit how good of a man he is, and to just pray to God about everything that is going on in his life. The turning point for the audience, though, is when the Misfit says, “I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters” (O’Connor). This makes Grandmother’s inevitable death even more