Characteristics In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

In the short story “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, the husband conflict with his wife Stella and sister in-law Blanche. The husband name is Stanley. He doesn’t like the idea of Blanche staying at his home. Stanley affront her sister about the gossip he heard about her personal life. Another story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the family had difficult time of break free from criminal named Misfit.

For example, the conscience the grandmother invokes at the beginning of the story is conveniently silent when she sneaks Pitty Sing (the

¨We in the audience can see the implication that eludes them (this is where our expectations concerning roads enter the equation), so much so that we may want to scream at them to walk them to walk up the road to a new life (Foster 236).¨ We didn't expect Tom to cheat on his wife, Daisy after he so called claimed he loved her. But what is really ironic, during the end of the book, Tom goes to Wilson's garage to get some gas for the car. Wilson explains to Tom how he thinks his wife Myrtle is having an affair but does not know who it is. As Daisy was driving, she accidentally killed Myrtle and it is insane because Daisy did not know Tom was cheating on her with Myrtle as well. It shows how dishonest and cruel people be.

Her effort by showing them an article in newspaper for an escaped person, Misfit who killed some people and hypothetical was in Florida, did not work. During the journey while passing through a plantation grandma thought she recognized that place and with her intrigue words she convinced them to go and visit the place. Later on, when she remembered that she was confused and the house was in Tennessee, the cat jumped and scared Bailey. They had an accident. Then, a car stopped.

In another quote the grandmother implies that the misfit is a good man by stating, "Yes it's a beautiful day," said the grandmother. "Listen, " she said, "You shouldn't call yourself the misfit because I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell" (421). The grandmother doesn't know the misfit from Adam, yet she already gave him a persona that he has to match. Besides the grandmother has already called Red Sammy a good man, and by now it is already apparent that its feigned.

There is a character named Judith, but her family 's been despicable about the name. "Worm" is verbally expressed by her brother Darrel. "You" is called by her mother and "Ladybird" is called by her father. The setting is in Colonial times with World War 1 in action. Judith sneaks off at night with her generosity to bring him berries before he prepares to go to battle including the other men.

It started by describing the characters in great detail and elaborating on their mundane lives, but didn’t even give the name of the grandmother. Even though we don’t know The Misfit’s name who was a murderer he had more knowledge of the world and had things figured out, unlike the grandmother, and unlike grandmother The Misfit realizes his own faults. He said, “I ain’t a good man, but I ain’t the worst in the world either” (305). As much of a bad person that The Misfit is he still makes sense and can use deductive reasoning, so he is not entirely insane. She tries to convince The Misfit he is a good person just like her, but does not even believe it herself.

He took her up very gently… Caliban Leon sternly, that was not a sportsmanlike thing to do. I am ashamed of you”(22-26). In the story Caliban felt so bad after he hurt the cat and dogs don’t show emotions, so I felt his master didn 't give his trust back because he almost killed the cat and he didn 't know how Caliban felt inside, so he made an assumption and didn 't trust him anymore. And then he freaked out

William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” chronicles the life of a southern woman. Without looking much into the story, one might just assume that Miss Emily is a mad woman, killing her lover that plans to leave her. However, if one looks farther into the story, the reader can see that Miss Emily is a very troubled woman. Throughout the story, Mrs. Emily refuses to acknowledge or deal with any kind of change, even that as simple as getting a mail box; her refusal to change is due impart to her overbearing father who sheltered her throughout her life and can also be seen as a symbolic representation of the South and its refusal to change following the Civil War. Right off the bat, the reader can see that Miss Emily does not deal well

Perfect.. It was perfect’, depicting that she felt the role, while not merely perfected her

Society 's expectations have blinded people into believing that skin deep characteristics are all it take to be a good man In the year of 1953 Flannery O’Connor wrote the short story A Good Man is Hard to Find , which is about a family of 6 including the grandma who are going on a trip to Florida where a criminal was the loose and the grandma tries to warn the family and yet she leads them to their death. Through the hypocritical grandma , Flannery O’Connor argues a good man is hard to find by portraying how society identifies a good man by there appearance and reputation rather than identifying a good man as someone who is internally good.