The Meaning of a Good Man is Hard to Find
In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” there could be several reasons why Flannery O’Connor named the title the way she did and there’s not one right answer. In Marie Lienard’s “From Manners to Mystery “article she says “the short story is characterized by a vision and an open-endedness that is very puzzling to the reader”. I totally agree with Lienard’s statement because when I had a discussion with my classmates at school and I saw how many different interoperations there was about the title and the meaning of the whole short story.
When I first saw the title I thought the story was going to be about finding a man to love and how hard it is to find a good man that believes in the same things you do but I was misled by O’Connor’s title. I soon found out that the …show more content…
Misfit tells the grandmother “If I would have been there I would of known and I wouldn’t be how I am now.” He is saying that if he would have been there when Jesus rose from the dead then he would know he is real and wouldn’t be doing the things he is doing now. This shows that he isn’t educated enough and doesn’t believe that Jesus is real. Flannery O’Connor is using this as a symbol to say that some of the younger generation isn’t educated enough about their religion.
Flannery O’Connor will always be remembered as an old southern lady and I think in the story she reveals that is how she wants to be remembered when the grandmothers gets dressed up just in case they got in a wreck so she will be identified as a lady. I will remember her as a writer that really made you use your imagination and as a writer that used symbols in her stories. There is no right answer on what the title is meant to be about but to me it is a symbol of religion like all her other stories I have
In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” there could be several reasons why Flannery O’Connor named the title the way she did and there’s not one right answer. In Marie Lienard’s “From Manners to Mystery “article she says “the short story is characterized by a vision and an open-endedness that is very puzzling to the reader”. I totally agree with Lienard’s statement because when I had a discussion with my classmates at school and I saw how many different interoperations there was about the title and the meaning of the whole short story.
When I first saw the title I thought the story was going to be about finding a man to love and how hard it is to find a good man that believes in the same things you do but I was misled by O’Connor’s title. I soon found out that the …show more content…
Misfit tells the grandmother “If I would have been there I would of known and I wouldn’t be how I am now.” He is saying that if he would have been there when Jesus rose from the dead then he would know he is real and wouldn’t be doing the things he is doing now. This shows that he isn’t educated enough and doesn’t believe that Jesus is real. Flannery O’Connor is using this as a symbol to say that some of the younger generation isn’t educated enough about their religion.
Flannery O’Connor will always be remembered as an old southern lady and I think in the story she reveals that is how she wants to be remembered when the grandmothers gets dressed up just in case they got in a wreck so she will be identified as a lady. I will remember her as a writer that really made you use your imagination and as a writer that used symbols in her stories. There is no right answer on what the title is meant to be about but to me it is a symbol of religion like all her other stories I have