Carroll O'Connor

Think of the year you were born and where you lived. The year of your birth says a lot about you and how you grew up, along with where you lived growing up. This is the setting of your own life. If you born in the twenty’s you would live a much different life compared to someone who was born in the seventy’s. Also, if you grew up in the south or west or even a different county your life would be very different then those who live elsewhere. All these factors change how your life was growing…

n is hard to do. O"Connor writes the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," trying to portray the difficulty in finding a "good" man. No one is perfect, but knowing the difference between good and bad is usually not a hard decision. In this story, readers jumble over the title and ask themselves who's "good" and who's "bad". At first glance, or after reading the story the first time, the Misfit supposedly portrays himself as the evil character by killing the grandmother. But to me, through careful…

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” was written by Flannery O’Connor. This story narrates the story a family of five and the grandmother. The story begins with news of a runaway convict whose location coincides with the one they are going as a family trip. The grandma tries to convince them to go somewhere else but she did not make her point through, during their trip, a series of unfortunate events occur that lead to everyone’s death. Flannery O’Connor’s message is that sometimes, in order to make a…

In the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor ,the author focuses on the theme good vs. evil. There are many different ways the author expresses the theme of good vs. evil in the story. The grandmother is a person who believes in herself as a good individual and the misfit is character who is believed to be evil by society. The grandmother may be perceived a the good character in the story but she had tendencies and ways that are evil and the Misfit is a evil man who has…

In the story’s by O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Revelation” there are two main characters that stand out more due to the fact that they seem to thrive on not showing any true emotions. The grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find comes from a time era where woman, had always been thought to be lady like and be in touch with God. The grandmother gives all the characters a hard time because in her eyes, they are not lady like or well behave gentleman. This character thrives on being…

Flannery O’Connor has wrote many short stories in her lifetime. One being A Good Man is Hard to Find. This short story is about a family that is going on a road trip to their vacation spot, and along the way they meet a man who is currently on the most wanted list, and the main character, the grandmother realizes her and the most wanted man is not that much different. This story is about good and evil, right and wrong, good people vs bad people. However in this story it is hard to tell the…

Christianity plays a central role in much of Flannery O’Connor’s work. As a devout Catholic, faith had an enormous influence on Flannery as a writer. Her key themes include the journey towards salvation, the search for Christ, and the awareness of grace. Through that lens, one can accurately interpret O’Connor’s stories, which often center around a character in need of salvation and the violence that highlights that need. In the context of divine truth, the crises in life, despite their ominous…

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor is a short story with a surprising twist at the end. It is a story of a family traveling from Atlanta, Georgia to Florida with an elderly Grandmother that is very selfish. It is through the Grandmother’s actions that we learn not to live in the past. The Grandmother is so obsessed with the past that it has become all she lives for. She no longer values the life she is living now and does not stop glorifying what her life was like long ago. In the…

The Meaning of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” The title of Flannery O'Connor's short story “ A Good Man is Hard to Find” has a deep meaning and influences key items in the story. The family that is depicted in the story learns how important the idea of “a good man is hard to find” is and what happens to them is influenced by this theme. The grandmother in particular is aware of the theme and is directly related to it because of her self acquired “lady-like” traits . The story reveals just how…

Many may ask themselves, who is Flannery O’Connor? I asked myself the exact same question until I read one of her books for the first time. Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25,1925 in Savannah,Georgia. She faced many hardships throughout her life. In the year 1941 her father died of systemic lupus erythematosus.She was diagnosed with the same kind of lupus that killed her father in 1950. At the time, there was no cure for this disease but she managed to fight it for more than ten years. The…