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Short Story It's Hard To Find A Good Man

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Tension could’ve been sliced with a piece of toast. In the short story “It’s Hard To Find a Good Man” by Flannery O'Connor. How true could a story really be? That’s what we are here to find out. For the Grandma and her family, it was very frightening what they had come across. Before the Misfit had decided to kill everyone in the family, he had told them why he was doing it all. In the writing, it’s talking about why the Misfit was in Prison and why he was trying to escape from there. The Misfit had told the Grandma that he wasn’t guilty and that the Justice System had cheated him out on it. “Because they have the papers on me; of course, they wouldn’t show it to me,” ( O’Connor 151). He didn’t want to kill anyone; because all he wanted

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