What is Good or Bad?
All of our lives we question what determines what is good or bad. There is a fine line between the two and people would always like to assume that they are good. In the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Connor demonstrates the subtle meaning of good. The grandma appears to regard goodness for the most part as a component of being fair, having great conduct, and originating from a group of the right individuals. The topic of this story shows the unidentifiable meaning of a decent individual. The grandma applies the name "great" self-assertively, obscuring the meaning of a "decent individual" until the name loses its significance totally.
The Grandmother, while not knowing Red Sammy very well, labels him …show more content…
There is no definition of good. Your definition of good may not be the best assumption as there is no single moral code to determine good or bad. The term moral doesn’t necessarily imply the word good. Moral is entirely subjective and can be misguided at times. "A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember that day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more"(O’Connor 341). When Sammy complains that a good man is hard to find, he seems to mean that trustworthy people are hard to find. To him, "good" means "decent" or "respectable," like it does for the grandmother. Of course, the grandmother – herself certainly a "good" person – and the family will encounter somebody who's "the other kind,", so there's something humorous yet foreboding about what Sammy says. But there's also a more serious irony because the encounter with genuine evil will pose the question of what it really means to be good. It could be that it means a lot more than Sammy or the grandmother think it does. The Misfit has no sense of right and wrong, and for this reason doesn't feel any punishment can ever "fit" the crime. "No, lady," The Misfit said while he was buttoning it up, "I found out the crime don't matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it"(O’Connor 347). The Misfit notice "overlooking," and it doesn't appear like we can take him actually. What truly makes The Misfit an awful individual is that he doesn't have a feeling of blame. He's not disturbed or frequented a short time later by what he does; none of his violations feels wrong to him. That is the reason he can talk about overlooking what he's
All of our lives we question what determines what is good or bad. There is a fine line between the two and people would always like to assume that they are good. In the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Connor demonstrates the subtle meaning of good. The grandma appears to regard goodness for the most part as a component of being fair, having great conduct, and originating from a group of the right individuals. The topic of this story shows the unidentifiable meaning of a decent individual. The grandma applies the name "great" self-assertively, obscuring the meaning of a "decent individual" until the name loses its significance totally.
The Grandmother, while not knowing Red Sammy very well, labels him …show more content…
There is no definition of good. Your definition of good may not be the best assumption as there is no single moral code to determine good or bad. The term moral doesn’t necessarily imply the word good. Moral is entirely subjective and can be misguided at times. "A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember that day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more"(O’Connor 341). When Sammy complains that a good man is hard to find, he seems to mean that trustworthy people are hard to find. To him, "good" means "decent" or "respectable," like it does for the grandmother. Of course, the grandmother – herself certainly a "good" person – and the family will encounter somebody who's "the other kind,", so there's something humorous yet foreboding about what Sammy says. But there's also a more serious irony because the encounter with genuine evil will pose the question of what it really means to be good. It could be that it means a lot more than Sammy or the grandmother think it does. The Misfit has no sense of right and wrong, and for this reason doesn't feel any punishment can ever "fit" the crime. "No, lady," The Misfit said while he was buttoning it up, "I found out the crime don't matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it"(O’Connor 347). The Misfit notice "overlooking," and it doesn't appear like we can take him actually. What truly makes The Misfit an awful individual is that he doesn't have a feeling of blame. He's not disturbed or frequented a short time later by what he does; none of his violations feels wrong to him. That is the reason he can talk about overlooking what he's