Mark O'Connor

Throughout history the matriarch of the family and her relationship with other family members have played a large role in the direction of the family. Such a principle is exhibited in Flannery O'Connor's short stories; O'Connor's utilization of the matriarchs and their relationships with other characters helps to more thoroughly develop all characters within the plot. O’Connor’s usage of the Grandmother to develop characters in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is much more effective than her usage…

Sometimes we go the wrong direction even when we seem to be going in the right direction. In Flannery O’Conner’s short story, “A Goodman is hard to find,” the main theme is a journey both physical and moral of its narrator and her family. The Grandmother, the narrator, as well as her family all have an element of imperfection. As the family journeys to Florida for vacation they stop along the way, and they end up getting in a motor vehicle accident and the family is discovered by escaped…

Flannery O'Connor demonstrates how having a false perception of reality leads to prejudice. Flannery O'Connor most frequently demonstrates this using the concept of racial prejudice in her short stories. This is shown due to the commonality protagonist refusing to accept social change. Many of Flannery O'Connor's stories deal with characters who are living in society after the abolishment of slavery. For example, Flannery O'Connors short story ¨Everything that Rises Must Converge¨ centers around…

Flannery O’Connor, the author of this religion and grotesque novel, was born on March 19th 1925 in Savannah Georgia. Parented by Regina and Edward O’Connor, she grew up heavily influenced by Roman Catholicism causing her to become isolated from the outside world. O’Connor began education very early, attending the city’s parochial school because a Catholic school could not be financially supported in that area. She was an exceptional student who lacked many social skills. However her family soon…

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…