A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Overview
The story begins with the grandmother trying to convince her family to cancel a trip to Florida, because of a vicious criminal who is on the lam somewhere in the Southern states. Everyone in her family ignores her except for her granddaughter, who mocks her. The family does take the trip and, in an ironic twist of fate, the father, who is grandmother's son, reluctantly agrees to take a fatal detour down a dirt road that grandmother insists leads to an old plantation she once visited. On this road, the cat that grandmother secretly brought along in the car attacks the father, causing an...
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In "Good Country People" O'Conner is also commenting on condescending... - kwoo1213 added a post:
Yes, she usually drives home her point with the violence, which, again, is... - peste19 added a post:
On my opionion she doesnt give us the message really clearly, on been looking over... - kwoo1213 added a post:
O'Connor's message isn't necessarily about how we need to change because we're... - peste19 added a post:
so from the stories i read all of her work her message is about redemption and...
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