A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

A Good Man Is Hard To Find, written by Flannery O’Connor is a Southern gothic short story. A Good Man Is Hard To Find is about a family from Georgia traveling to Florida for a vacation with a grandma begging every second of the way to go to Tennessee insead, but stopping for a detour near a plantation she recognizes. The theme of A Good Man Is Hard To Find toes the line of morality and redemption, leaving the clear theme of perspective as an obvious one to catch on to. A Good Man Is Hard To Find has many potential influences too, with this story being written in 1953, there are many factors that played into the inspiration for Flannery O’Connor writing of A Good Man Is Hard To Find. Analyzing A Good Man Is Hard To Find, written by Flannery

Flannery O’Connor was a “God-conscious writer” she states in one of letters to a young woman in 1955, July 20th; documented by themarginaliam.org. Flannery O’Connor was an orthodox Catholic and disabled, she saw the hypocrisy many Catholics held themselves with and how disabled people were treated. A Good Man Is Hard To Find is a wonderful example of Catholic hypocrisy, showing the grandma seeing herself as a woman of god, “‘If you would pray,’ the old lady said, ‘Jesus would help you.’” The grandma acted as if she did not actually believe in her faith, instead merely embracing the finery it gave her and not genuinely having her religion be a good change in her life and as a person. This supports the thesis because being completely unaware of yourself leads to a person ignoring morality and instead flowing with whatever is the strongest feeling in the moment. That stuff becomes dangerous when it’s selfish decisions, anger, the need of constant attention and said by florbes.com, “overconfidence, poor judgment and the inability to learn from mistakes, build teams or relate to

The grandmother is a bad person. That is something never directly said within A Good Man Is Hard To Find, it is an interpretation of her character as a whole. The Misfit and grandmother are more alike than thought, with their brief interaction it is clear they think in opposite ways. They’re both using belief systems for their benefit, the grandma’s being the Catholic religion and the Misfit’s being redemption. The Misfit doesn’t try to change, he believes it’s far too late to even make an effort. While the grandmother is selfish and manipulative, she uses the excuse of religion for how she acts and how she views herself. These people are evil, in opposite ways. The grandma is the personification of evil and so is the Misfit. Their similar characteristics of hypocrisy, lack of empathy and lack of religious understanding. The Misfit seems unhappy in the state of mind he’s in. He looks like he’s aware of his flaws, but unwilling to put in the effort to change them. Which is in contrast to the grandma who’s flaws are entirely invisible to her. The grandma doesn’t see any reason for her to change, so she doesn’t make an effort to. Their only difference is the Misfit is unhappy with his way of life while the grandma is more than content to stay as she is. Even with interpretation, the title references them both, A Good Man Is Hard To