A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Flannery O’Connor
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Plot: Horror
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: Georgia
- Principal Characters: The grandmother, Bailey, Bailey's wife, June Star, John Wesley, Red Sammy, The Misfit
- 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 Story
This grotesque tale of sudden violence in the rural South opens quietly, with a family planning a vacation. The husband, Bailey, his wife, and their children, John Wesley and June Star, all want to go to Florida. The grandmother, Bailey's mother, however, wants to go to east Tennessee, where she has relatives, and she determinedly attempts to persuade them to go there instead. Unable to convince them that the trip to Tennessee will be novel and broadening for the children, the grandmother offers as a final argument a newspaper article that states that a psychopathic...
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