Southern Gothic Literary Analysis

American Literature shaped the Southern Gothic Genre by exploring the south and criticizing the moral blindness of the south. Disturbed personalities, macabre situations, and moral blindness are the traits of the Southern Gothic Genre. A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor, The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson, and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner had held the traits of Southern Gothic Literature. Southern Gothic is portrayed through the character and situations within the stories.(Work on) A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor is about a narcissistic grandmother who doesn't want to go to Florida because a murderer, The Misfit, is on the loose; her and her family end up murdered by the Misfit and his comrades. In the story, the grandmother is very morally blinded, however, before her death, she recognizes that the Misfit was her son and her hypocrisy led him onto the wrong path in life.(Work On)The Misfit demonstrates that he has a disturbed personality considering that he has no remorse killing people, including his own mother.(Work on)The family trip turned into a dark turn or a macabre situation being that the family ended up getting murdered. …show more content…
In the beginning of the story, Jackson portrayed Miss Strangeworth as an admired woman in the story, however, Miss Strangeworth attitude adjusts quickly behind closed doors. Behind closed doors, Miss Strangeworth displayed her disturbed personality when she writes her anonymous and blunt letters to people instead of confronting their faces. Being morally blinded, Miss Strangeworth puts on a false facade, instead of being honest. Macabre situations play a part when somebody finally found that she has been sending the anonymous letters; they decided to destroy what she is best known for, her