Carroll O'Connor

The Grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, she uses the character of the grandmother to present the cons of self-centeredness. Although it is very obvious the grandmother lacks self-awareness, she still considers herself a good woman. The appearance of the grandmother described throughout this short story is shown to the reader as an old, southern, Caucasian woman. The way she spoke and how she chose to dress…

Life will always throw objectives in the path of life, but you never know what is coming next. It could throw a couple weeks of good things and then a couple weeks of bad things at you. Maybe it could even throw something at you that may seem good on the outside, but then just turns into a dreadful item that drags you down on the inside. In Flannery O’Conner’s story “Good Country People” she uses the boy selling Bibles to illustrate the culturally excepted idea of judging someone only by their…

Good Country People The characters in Flannery O’Conner’s “Good Country People” hinder their growth and development as characters by accepting a specific identity placed on them by social standing and education, which ironically should have placed them above others in title. Mrs. Hopewell is considered and considers herself as an upper class landowner. She owns a successful farm and is of a high economic class, but she is still considered a hard worker. Everyone below her is divided into two…

a grandmother who is killed by escaped convicts succeeds largely due to the interplay among its separate narrative parts. By combining a discriminate morality, a “holier than thou” attitude, and the delusion of grace in the territory of the devil O’Connor is able to highlight a universal and timeless theme found throughout her works: A smug and sanctimonious mindset will bring about punitive measures, however not without a chance of redemption. The protagonist of the story (the grandmother)…

reasons that he will not kill a lady that would be in keeping with her own moral code, as she claims to the Misfit, "You've got good blood! I know you wouldn't shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady" (O'Connor 555). However, her assumption proves to be false, because the Misfit ends up killing…

like we do…” she said (O’Connor 406). The author wants the reader to understand that this story takes place in the southern United States. The characters use of the word britches shows they are from down south, because northerns rarely use the word britches unless they are mocking a southern accent. The grandmother also refers to the boy as a “Nigger” and speaks about him condescendingly. Her poor grammar and direct racist comment reinforces that she is of the south. O’Connor establishes this…

Flannery O’Connor has written about many subjects that defied the common ideology of her society at the time, like misogyny and ways to improve women’s rights. She wrote stories that have meaning towards her ideas and that show the importance of them, and she did so within her own fictitious tales instead of taking a direct approach and write a dissertation on her thoughts. In one of her famous short stories, “Good Country People”, she discusses the topic of identity within the plot of it and is…

Comparing and Contrasting “The Lesson” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” At first, one may not think that there are any similarities between “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. By taking a deeper look one notices that there are actually quite a few similarities, including the personalities of the two characters Sylvia and the Misfit. Another connection that these short stories share is the way the authors show the reader the theme of being…

Good Man Is Hard to Find” O’Connor, told the story in third person, and it centers mainly on the grandmother. She is the character we are told the most about. We don’t get much detail, but we get to hear her thoughts and feelings. O’Connor lets us know whose story this is in the first two lines, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind” (O’Connor, 1955, P.117). We are…

literature class, we have to read articles, stories, and poems, then analyze them. Then answer and respond to a few questions on the readings. One story that caught my attention and intrigues me the most is “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor. The story is about a family that consists of a grandmother(the mom of the family), Bailey(the son of the grandmother), June Star(daughter of Bailey), John Wesley(son of Bailey), the mother and the baby, that go on a trip to Florida where they…