A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1953
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Betrayal, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Cats, Violence, Christianity, Accidents, Death or dying, Grandparents or grandchildren, Ethics, Theft, Arson, Mass murderers or serial killers
- Locales: Georgia
The Work
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” the title story of Flannery O’Connor’s first collection of short stories, is one of her most anthologized stories. As in most of her stories, the theme of identity in this story involves O’Connor’s Christian conviction about the role of sin, particularly the sin of pride, in distorting one’s true identity. The focal character in the story, who is identified only as the grandmother, convinces herself and, she thinks, her family, that she is a good judge of human nature.
In fact, she assumes that she is the best judge on...
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