Often times realities become too harsh to a point that people try to escape from their realities to find a comfort place, such as a "secret garden" or by falling into a rabbit hole to Alice 's Wonderland. Similarly in Flannery O ' Connor triad of short stories, " Good Country People", “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and “Everything that Rises Must Converge , Connor uses characterization, ironic tone, and setting to show that escaping from life consequences has dangerous consequences, both physically and psychologically. In similar ways each protagonist believes that they are superior to others, this characteristic obstructs any sensible commitment with reality. In "“Good Country People” , Joy (Hulga) believes that she is intellectually superior
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Joy is scared to be happy, especially because ever since she lost her leg she has lost all sense of happiness. To match how ugly and disabled she is, Joy changed her name to something"...that she had thought and thought until she had hit upon the ugliest name in any language... Her legal name was Hulga." (435) . Likewise Julian 's mother also has fears, but her fears involve her being too afraid and insecure about how people see her in society. She believes that "since this had been a fashionable neighborhood forty years ago, they had done well, to have an apartment in it" (448). She also unconsciously feared that the African Americans, whom once, were part of her "great-grandfather plantation" ( 449) would rise up in society and be at the same social status she was. In “A Good Man is Hard To Find”, the grandmother fears death. Examples of this would be her bring her cat on the trip because she did "not want the cat to be left at home for three days because he would miss her too much and she was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners ad accidently asphyxiate himself" (423), and prepared herself to look like a lady, "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was lady."
Joy is scared to be happy, especially because ever since she lost her leg she has lost all sense of happiness. To match how ugly and disabled she is, Joy changed her name to something"...that she had thought and thought until she had hit upon the ugliest name in any language... Her legal name was Hulga." (435) . Likewise Julian 's mother also has fears, but her fears involve her being too afraid and insecure about how people see her in society. She believes that "since this had been a fashionable neighborhood forty years ago, they had done well, to have an apartment in it" (448). She also unconsciously feared that the African Americans, whom once, were part of her "great-grandfather plantation" ( 449) would rise up in society and be at the same social status she was. In “A Good Man is Hard To Find”, the grandmother fears death. Examples of this would be her bring her cat on the trip because she did "not want the cat to be left at home for three days because he would miss her too much and she was afraid he might brush against one of the gas burners ad accidently asphyxiate himself" (423), and prepared herself to look like a lady, "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was lady."