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    <title>A Good Man Is Hard to Find Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The main characters are the family, whom we follow in their car. Bailey...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main characters are the family, whom we follow in their car. Bailey is the father, who is cowardly and quiet, allowing himself to be pushed around by his mother, his wife, and his kids. John Wesley, his son, is a stocky kid with glasses, who seems to be the most normal of the family. He wants to see the house Grandmother talks about, &amp; this is why Bailey ends up turning down the side road and encountering the Misfit. His sister, June...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:05:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who are the Characters in the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who are the Characters in the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Conner?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 
O'Connor would want us to care about the family's souls.  She would...]]></title>
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O'Connor would want us to care about the family's souls.  She would want us to ask, "Why does this family, if 'saved' by the blood of Jesus, try to save themselves from death?"  Her implicit answer seems to be that most people ironically worry about their souls most when they are about to lose them.  If this is the case, she seems to be saying that we should live every day as if we had a gun to our head.  She certainly did: she was...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:05:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what qualities about the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," what qualities about the family are meant to be taken seriously?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:58:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the significance of the discussion of jesus?was he a good man]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what is the significance of the discussion of jesus?was he a good man]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:54:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    During the family's drive to Florida in the Flannery O'Connor...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    During the family's drive to Florida in the Flannery O'Connor short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," they stop at Red Sammy's Famous Barbecue restaurant. Red Sammy is an amiable good ol' boy with a monkey for a pet, an overhanging belly and a propensity for small talk. He orders his wife around, but she doesn't seem to notice (nor does the family).    The conversation with Red Sammy seems as out-of-place as many of the other...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:13:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the conversation with Red Sammy contribute to the plot of "A...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the conversation with Red Sammy contribute to the plot of "A Good Man is Hard to Find"? Is it part of the complication or the conflict?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:15:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In short stories, there can be no wasted motion: every character is...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/when-you-first-hear-misfit-do-you-expect-meet-him-111489</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In short stories, there can be no wasted motion: every character is vital.  The Misfit, by name, seems like an archetypal character, a devil loosed on the earth.  We know he's roaming out there, and we know this self-righteous woman is going to run into him.  O'Connor set him up to be her foil, a kind of doppelganger: a ghost who haunts her.
O'Connor works in double movements: she uses the wicked to expose the sins of the righteous.  Her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:54:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The initial mention of The Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's short story, "A...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The initial mention of The Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," appears to be just an off-hand comment by the grandmother about the dangers of vacationing in the direction of Florida. However, we find out later that the reference foreshadows the family's actual meeting with the escaped serial killer. The grandmother's warning about The Misfit gives the story an early touch of apprehensive tension during...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:54:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When you first hear of The Misfit, do you expect to meet him? How does...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When you first hear of The Misfit, do you expect to meet him? How does this early mention affect the plot?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:55:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The previous answer is well thought out and really their are many...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The previous answer is well thought out and really their are many interpretations of the relationship between the grandmother and the Misfit. My own would be that the grandmother sees her sins in the misfits face as it is twisted close to hers. Twisted meaning full of sins and being close to hers meaning that it was like looking at herself. She realizes how selfish and sinful she has been. She is always too busy telling the misfit to pray when...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Two settings are especially important in the development of the plot,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two settings are especially important in the development of the plot, the diner where the family stops to eat and the rural location on the dirt road where the car wreck occurs. It is in the diner where the family learns details about the Misfit. These details foreshadow the family's eventual encounter with him. The setting of the car wreck is a rural setting, isolated and remote from any signs of civilization. The nature of this setting...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:48:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The use of setting in development of the plot - How is setting used in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The use of setting in development of the plot - How is setting used in development of the plot?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:52:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[First, let me compliment you on a challenging and engaging topic.  I...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/there-way-compare-and-contrast-good-man-hard-find-109713</link>
        <description><![CDATA[First, let me compliment you on a challenging and engaging topic.  I had to think on this one for a bit.  One approach is to compare the idea of sacrificial suffering, of the detriment of the few for the greater good.  The child in "Omelas" can be compared and contrasted with the Misfit in "Good Man."  Both have been caged, the child in the basement and the Misfit in jail, for ambiguous reasons.  The child seems to have been chosen at...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:38:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is there a way to compare and contrast "A Good Man is Hard to Find"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is there a way to compare and contrast "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (O'Connor) &amp; "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (Le Guin)?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:06:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When answering this question, you can't leave out the situation at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When answering this question, you can't leave out the situation at hand--the Misfit is about to kill the Grandmother.  That's pretty intense--if you were in that situation, the emotions would be heightened, and you'd probably be begging and crying just like she was.  This automatically intensifies things, and brings the two characters very, very close, as they parry back and forth in the dramatic situation.  So it isn't that they have some...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:23:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the Misfit and the Grandmother seem to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the Misfit and the Grandmother seem to have a strange/intense relationship: what is going on there?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:21:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I recently answered a similar question. Hope this helps....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I recently answered a similar question. Hope this helps.
http://www.enotes.com/good-man/q-and-a/need-help-comparing-contrasting-general-zaroff-108449]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Help needed with a thesis statement for comparing/contrasting Zaroff...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Help needed with a thesis statement for comparing/contrasting Zaroff in "The Most Dangerous Game" and Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find."]]></description>
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Both are stock characters, used as foils to reveal more clearly the...]]></title>
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Both are stock characters, used as foils to reveal more clearly the traits of the protagonists, the grandmother and Rainsford.  Both are mass murderers who give their prey opportunities to save themselves.  Zaroff gives Rainsford more than a fighting chance, and there seems to be a gentlemanly respect between the two foes.  Zaroff waits for his prey to wreck on his island, whereas the Misfit stumbles upon his wrecked victims.
Zaroff is...]]></description>
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