A Good Man Is Hard to Find | The Grandmother

The Grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is the story's principal character. Her religious epiphany at the story's end provides the philosophical thrust behind the narrative. By giving her no name other than Grandmother and crotchety conversation that provides much of the story's humor, O'Connor paints her as a tragically comic caricature, one that a reader can easily, but wrongly, feel superior to. She is selfish and pushy; in fact, her desire to see a house from her childhood results in the family's death at the end of the story. The story's primary action involves a family car...

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