“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor is about a family that is going on a vacation to Florida however the grandmother does not wish to go. The family leaves with the two older children complaining about Tennessee and Georgia landscaping. The grandmother tells the kids some stories while on the road and convinces them of a secret panel within her old house. This causes the children to kick and scream until their father agrees to see the house, leading to a car accident causing them to end up in the hand of an escaped convict known as the Misfit. The Misfit ends up killing the family one by one. Even while the grandmother tried to convince the Misfit to save her life because she is a lady; however, the Misfit still killed her. In O’Connor’s short story, her use of literary elements such as limited omniscient narrator, characterization and symbolism help to explain the theme pride
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O’Connor brings her readers into the life of the un-named grandmother and her family. Allowing them to see the characters for themselves instead through the eyes of another character. The reason this is an issue is because seeing the characters through another’s eyes doesn’t allow the reader to make their own decisions about a character. For example, the grandmother in O’Connor’s short story is extremely prideful; however, seeing the grandmother through any of her family member’s eyes we would see a woman dogmatic, who lives life like it was the old times and sees her as a nuisance. For example in O’Connor’s short story June Star states, “‘She wouldn’t stay at home for a million bucks,’ June Star said. ‘Afraid she’d miss something. She has to go everywhere we go’” (249). June Star sees her grandmother as a nuisance, someone who has to be with them all the time and no one can convince her
O’Connor brings her readers into the life of the un-named grandmother and her family. Allowing them to see the characters for themselves instead through the eyes of another character. The reason this is an issue is because seeing the characters through another’s eyes doesn’t allow the reader to make their own decisions about a character. For example, the grandmother in O’Connor’s short story is extremely prideful; however, seeing the grandmother through any of her family member’s eyes we would see a woman dogmatic, who lives life like it was the old times and sees her as a nuisance. For example in O’Connor’s short story June Star states, “‘She wouldn’t stay at home for a million bucks,’ June Star said. ‘Afraid she’d miss something. She has to go everywhere we go’” (249). June Star sees her grandmother as a nuisance, someone who has to be with them all the time and no one can convince her