A Good Man Is Hard to Find

In Flannery O'Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the characters didn’t seem to portray any sympathy. Bailey, the grandmother's son, doesn’t show any sympathy toward his family when they were in the woods. He yelled “[h]ush! Everybody shut up…” (O'Connor 306) at his family, which showed he had no sympathy for their feelings. The grandmother, one of the main characters in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, displays herself as a good Christian woman. However, at the end of the story she…

called A Good Man is Hard to Find the author shows examples of several important characters and influences. The grandma plays a significant role in this short story. The way she thinks and what she says largely directs how this story goes. The grandma had a moment where she connected with the misfit, but found herself in a completely different place. In this short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find written by Flannery O’Connor demonstrates how someone can seem to be a misfit but later can find…

similar to that which is seen in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Within the story, the grandmother sees herself as a lady that can manipulate her family in any way she pleases. These same values are upheld by Red Sam, the owner of The Tower, a restaurant that the family stops for food at. While Red Sam and the grandmother converse, they mention the Misfit, a third individual who places himself in a position of power. These characters in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”…

In the end, selfish people always end up alone. That is exactly what happened to the grandmother in “ A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. Bailey, the grandmother’s son, was taking his family to Florida. There was only one problem; the grandmother did not want to go to Florida, she grandmother wanted to go to Tennessee. The grandmother did everything in her power to change the families mind, resulting in the death of her and her family. Throughout the story, the grandmother is…

that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt” (Bacon). In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, there are two characters that are the main cause to the story; one who was dishonest and the other who was honest. Characters such as the grandmother who was dishonest and The Misfit who was an honest man. The Misfit is an honest man for many reasons throughout the story and if only the grandmother was honest to her family, they would have…

A good man is indeed hard to find. Flannery O’Connor is a strong believer in faith, and in this short story, she makes speculations about society and human nature. Using the character the grandmother in the tale, she exhibits her as a representation of all her observations about the inherent characteristics in people. A Good Man is Hard to Find questions the true qualities of human nature and sends readers messages that are most likely ignored and almost never uttered out loud. From this cynical…

In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’ Conner shows that Bailey, is an example of a good man. O’ Conner ideal of a good man Bailey sure is the opposite Bailey doesn’t listen to his mother about the Misfit and him being stubborn is the reason the family ends up going to Florida. Bailey also makes hasty decisions based on whining and griping like trying to find a mansion with a secret door in it Bailey is the son of the unnamed grandmother. His family doesn’t respect him or takes him…

Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find takes us on the journey of unlikely receivers of redemptive grace. The story follows Grandmother and her family on a road expedition to their approaching fate carried out by the Misfit and his associated convicts. Flannery O’Connor presents exaggerations in her characters to demonstrate their depraved sense of character. The main theme is acknowledged through a last moment epiphany towards the end of the story. Flannery O’Conner sets the reader up…

A Good Man is Hard to Find was an interesting story. It started off with a solid hook that piqued my interest and prompted me to continue reading. After the hook, the author kept my attention by her immediate use of foreshadowing while at the same time introducing us to the personality of the grandmother. She tells her son that “The Mist is aloose…and headed toward Florida. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal…”(337). I thought that this was effective way showing the…

In her short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, Flannery O’Connor introduces the reader to a world of family issues, danger, and murder. The story was written in 1955 during a period of social and racial unrest in the southern United States. Mostly, the story follows O 'Connor 's basic Southern Gothic writing style, a work that is "cold and dispassionate, as well as almost absurdly stark and violent" (Galloway). While the quote gives major insight into the tone of the story, it does not offer a…