As Flannery O’Connor has these two women different in many ways, she also uses these women to be very similarly in more ways than they differentiate. One habit that they both have in common is how they always want to be in control. The grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” does not want to go to Florida because she wants to go east Tennessee to meet up with people she knows from there. In the beginning of the story she attempts to manipulate her son by saying: “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t
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Manly Pointer is not actually the man’s name. According to Elizabeth Hubbard: Similarly, the fake Bible salesman has only assumed the name Manley Pointer; we never know his real name, and his chosen name itself is ambiguous. On the one hand, his attempt to seduce Hulga may be guided by his lascivious manly pointer . . . On the other hand, however, his name might also suggest that he is a man who enters Hulga’s life to point her away from the path she has chosen for herself, marking him as a prophet of sorts” (Hubbard 64).
As the statement by Elizabeth Hubbard states who Manly Pointer is, one could see that he is very deceiving. By his deceiving ways he seduces Joy-Hulga and runs off with her artificial leg. But as stated earlier, Joy-Hulga thought she was going to seduce him but she was wrong. O’Connor is using Joy-Hulga to symbolize her religion of nihilism as Joy-Hulga thought that she was going to seduce a good Christian man to prove her point that there is no higher power and that morals are meaningless and that Manly Pointer should believe in nothing much like she
Manly Pointer is not actually the man’s name. According to Elizabeth Hubbard: Similarly, the fake Bible salesman has only assumed the name Manley Pointer; we never know his real name, and his chosen name itself is ambiguous. On the one hand, his attempt to seduce Hulga may be guided by his lascivious manly pointer . . . On the other hand, however, his name might also suggest that he is a man who enters Hulga’s life to point her away from the path she has chosen for herself, marking him as a prophet of sorts” (Hubbard 64).
As the statement by Elizabeth Hubbard states who Manly Pointer is, one could see that he is very deceiving. By his deceiving ways he seduces Joy-Hulga and runs off with her artificial leg. But as stated earlier, Joy-Hulga thought she was going to seduce him but she was wrong. O’Connor is using Joy-Hulga to symbolize her religion of nihilism as Joy-Hulga thought that she was going to seduce a good Christian man to prove her point that there is no higher power and that morals are meaningless and that Manly Pointer should believe in nothing much like she