Southern Gothic Literature has shaped American Literature throughout traits such as disturbed personalities, macabre situations, and moral blindness. Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil”, and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” all portray these traits. Unlike American Literature, Southern Gothic Literature focuses on the disturbed personalities, and macabre/grotesque situations. We learn about the moral blindness found in the South. Flannery O’Connor’s, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, shows the struggles that a family endures by a small accident leading to a big problem. A specific, southern grandmother and family encounter danger through macabre situations when they meet The Misfit.
