Flannery O'Connor

In the short stories of “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, both stories have a male antagonist, Arnold Friend and Manley Pointer. They both have important roles in their stories, they prey on the two female protagonists, Hulga and Connie. Some similarities between the two characters are they both play predators in the story. They stalk their victims before ever making an approach. Manley tried to hid the fact…

of fear is present throughout these stories. The ideology of fear are shown in these two stories and they connect to how fear is used to control people. Fear is seen today and was seen in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Both Joyce Carol Oates and Flannery O’Connor emphasized this throughout their stories. In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Arnold Friend exists as a character who is surrounded by multiple people in his daily life. He chooses Connie out of the crowd and chooses her to…

The Plot Summary in “A Good Main Is Hard to Find” has tons of great ideas that lead up to horrendous moments. In the first half of the story, Bailey, the husband of John’s mother, plans a road trip with the family. The Grandmother wants to go to Tennessee, but The Mother wants to go to Florida. This leads to a big discussion because two family members have different options that they think is better even though harmful things can happen to any of them if they listen to The Mother. The…

Religion is a pervasive theme in many of the works of Flannery O’Connor, in one of her works A Good Man is Hard to Find there is a present dialect between the characters about religion itself. This stark vision of O’Conner’s can be viewed as the clash between traditional Christian values and the ever-changing secular world. In her story, the presence of a Christian’s more secular actions can be seen. O’Conner’s use of the title and characters is an imagery of the battleground she feels faces the…

Explication of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a very interesting short story. The story starts with a grandmother trying to talk his son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida for a family trip. She tells the son about The Misfit who escaped prison who is going toward Florida. The family disagrees with the grandmother and they end up going to Florida. On their way the grandmother tells the kids about a house with a secret panel in Georgia…

Many stories use suspense in order to keep readers entertained, but the story, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor, uses it especially well. In this story, a grandma and her son are arguing whether to visit Florida or Tennessee. The grandmother does not want to visit Florida because there is a misfit on the loose. The son keeps with his decision of going to Florida, and the grandmother brings along a cat without his consent. Soon, they make a stop, and the grandmother convinces her…

people who fail to try to understand those different things, and we even have people who believe they are “good” while ignorantly and unsurprisingly having their own flaws. In both Cathedral, by Raymond Carver, and A Good Man Is Hard To Find, by Flannery O’Connor, the central characters are forced to deal with circumstances that change their beliefs about themselves and others. The authenticity of these two stories show you the dangers of ignorance and how you should live life the first time…

society. For example, today’s society puts pressure on the female to conform to fixed rules. They are expected to be seen, and not heard, while the man does all of the work. Two short stories that break these traditions are Good Country People, by Flannery O’Connor, and Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Good Country People is about a girl who does not conform to that society’s rules about women and is seen as odd by the people around her, even her mother. The passage from Catcher in the Rye…

Furthermore, Baldwin would argue that the innocent America remains to be a similar version of its former self. Because the racist ideologies from an older generation continues to be passed down to a newer one. Such as it is represented in Flannery O’Connor’s’ Artificial Nigger. For the Grandfather is a quintessential example of Baldwin’s rhetorical concept of the innocence minded. Mr. Head, fits in to Baldwin’s concept, because of how his actions, and uses of language, which he perceives as…

An estimated 48.9 million people, or 19.4% of the non-institutionalized civilians, have a disability (“Basic…”). With a lack of acceptance toward disabled people, individuals amongst society need to understand disabilities come in a variety of forms. Often times relationships between family members strengthened with disabled children because they have to learn ways to work together effectively. Families with disabled members do not deserve to get judgement placed upon them because they will do…