William Faulkner

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner seems like a basic story. It is the story of a incoherent family that takes a trip and by chance they end up at the hands of a killer. When this story is looked at more closely it really holds some important themes. The two main characters, the grandmother and the Misfit, have a conversation that reveals more than what is on the surface. The innocent grandmother and the killer Misfit although seeming the complete opposites of good and evil are…

“Good Country People” features Mrs. Hopewell and her daughter, Joy, who develop senses of identity through passive judgement and self-identity development. The Freemans and Manley Porter accentuate the Hopewell’s individualities, furthering the theme’s architecture. Through the employment of setting, point of view, and symbolism, Flannery O’Connor creates a solid theme of constructing individual identity in her short story “Good Country People.” Both the presence and absence of setting in…

Dee Henderson is one of the best Christian fiction writers of her time. Her favorite genre to write is suspense/romance and she does it incredibly well. She has won or been nominated for numerous awards including the RITA Award, the Christy Award, the ECPA Gold Medallion, the Holt Medallion, the National Reader’s Choice Award, and the Golden Quill. Dee Henderson has worked hard to make herself a bestselling author and her journey to this point has not been easy. Dee Henderson knew from an early…

Flannery O’Connor truly expresses irony throughout “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The irony she uses enriches her story in all aspects from beginning to end.As the story starts, the weird traits of the characters make for a captivating story. This story also ends up being ironic, most times due to the grandmother or The Misfit. O’Connor uses irony to enrich her story as she builds up towards the climax, and she creates an ironic ending to the short story. We first see irony come up when the…

Each short story contains a different theme, setting, and genre. The short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, by Flannery O’Connor, focuses on a family’s road trip which comes to a short end. “Regret”, by Kate Chopin, is about Mamzelle Aurelle who lives alone with her dog and has never been married. “The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, is a story about a couple who learn a pricey lesson about living lavishly. In the three shorty stories, each character underwent a transformation from a…

Flannery O’Connor’s and Southern Gothic Literature As a writer Flannery O’Connor blends aspects from both the south and their inherent Christianity. In her stories she does a wonderful job in the recreating of life in the south but at the same time she high lighted many of the parts of the southern society that many want to forget. Flannery O’Connor’s writings were anything but light hearted and carefree, she used many aspects of the Grotesque Southern Gothic genre and refers to the south as…

The story begins with young sartoris Snopes sitting in the back of a town general store which also functions as the town court. His father, Abner snopes is being tried for allegedly burning down the barn of a Mr. Harris. The judge rules in favor of Abner but demands the tenant family leave town for good. The family, which includes Abner, Sartoris, Lennie snopes, his twin sisters and Aunt Lizzie, leave town and will move on to an unknown location to resume tenant farming. During the move Abner…

Laura is in an abusive marriage with her husband Martin, and she decides that the only way out is by faking her own death. Laura moves to Cedar Falls, Iowa, and takes on the name Sara Waters. However, back home Martin discovers that Laura faked her own death. He is able to track her down when he finds that her mother, who he believed dead, was still alive and living in a nursing home in Iowa. Posing as a cop Martin is able to locate Laura to Cedar Falls. From there he follows her home, and he…

The Story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” includes many features, which may be described as magical realism. Marquez uses magical realism to combine reality and fictional so that the difference between the two erases. Although the large man is thought to be an angel, because of his weird looks and awkward nature the townspeople treat him poorly. This shows people are incapable of looking past something's cover and into what it really is. Through the use of magical realism, Marquez shows us…

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…