Dec 19, 2009
A Good Man Is Hard to Find | A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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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