To start off with the short stories, "A Good man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Conner and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner are really similar in their own way. One tale is about a grandmother and her family brutally murdered by a cold hearted killer, and the other tale is about a lady who murders her lover and then sleeps beside his rotting body. Not only have O'Conner and Faulkner created similar plots in their respective stories, both authors criticize the Southern corruption through the distortion of the character's' view in reality.The character's social statuses and their hard lives show the author's' criticism of the Southern social structure. The stories include thought into the families of the older south, and the older class
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They are both unfair as anyone else living in this time of era, though slavery was officially not allowed anymore. In "A Rose for Emily," Emily herself has a black servant, and is not surprised when the Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn't come back" (Faulkner 4). The drug store vendor makes the Negro to sell the lethal arsenic to Emily, so the vendor himself will not get into trouble. The arsenic she bought from the Negro is later used in Emily's crime, which shows that Emily was so accustomed to looking upon other human beings that she did not hesitate to kill her …show more content…
In "A Good Man us Hard to Find," the grandmother has created her moral code on the characteristics that she believes make people "good." For instance, the grandmother thinks Red Sammy is "good," because he trusts people blindly and is wistful of the past. Also, she assumes that Misfit is "good" because she reasons that he will not kill a lady that would be in keeping with her own moral code, as she claims to the Misfit, "You've got good blood! I know you wouldn't shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady" (O'Connor 555). However, her assumption proves to be false, because the Misfit ends up killing
They are both unfair as anyone else living in this time of era, though slavery was officially not allowed anymore. In "A Rose for Emily," Emily herself has a black servant, and is not surprised when the Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn't come back" (Faulkner 4). The drug store vendor makes the Negro to sell the lethal arsenic to Emily, so the vendor himself will not get into trouble. The arsenic she bought from the Negro is later used in Emily's crime, which shows that Emily was so accustomed to looking upon other human beings that she did not hesitate to kill her …show more content…
In "A Good Man us Hard to Find," the grandmother has created her moral code on the characteristics that she believes make people "good." For instance, the grandmother thinks Red Sammy is "good," because he trusts people blindly and is wistful of the past. Also, she assumes that Misfit is "good" because she reasons that he will not kill a lady that would be in keeping with her own moral code, as she claims to the Misfit, "You've got good blood! I know you wouldn't shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady" (O'Connor 555). However, her assumption proves to be false, because the Misfit ends up killing