Flannery O Connor Analysis

On March 25th,1925, Flannery O’ Conner was born into the Catholic family of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O’Connor. She dealt with hardship at a merely young age, when she was fifteen, she “lost her father to systemic lupus erythematosus” (Gordon). She then continued her education at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville with a degree in social science. Additionally, she decided to attend the Writers' Workshop at the State University of Iowa, from which she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1947. By 1950 she was diagnosed with lupus which is the same disease that killed her father. But, this didn’t stop O’Connor from pursuing her passion so she continued to write and published many brilliant stories that made her a highly accredited author. Though she had a variety of stories, she kept a similar tone throughout them “O'Connor's short stories and novels are set in a rural South where people know their places, mind their manners and do horrible things to one another” (Downes). She especially does a fantastic job in two of her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” she intensifies the visual aspect of how she saw people in the South. She painted the characters in a …show more content…
The author mentions clouds a series of times and may be a representation of the grandmother’s shallow believe in Jesus. For example, the family’s life is being threatened and the grandma pleads “I know you’re a good man” (O’Connor 421) and the misfit replies with “Yes, ma’am” (O’Connor). The Misfit could’ve began to feel sympathetic so he unconsciously looks up at the sky and tells her "Ain't a cloud in the sky” (O’Connor 421) then states "Don't see no sun but don't see no cloud neither" (O’Connor 421). The constant mentioning of how clear the sky is may have been the author’s way to represent that the grandmother’s faith is parallel to the empty