A Good Man Is Hard to Find Group

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Explain how "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is an example of Flannery O' Conner's use of grotesque.

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Posted by august6star on Tuesday September 16, 2008 at 2:14 PM and tagged with a good man is hard to find, elements, grotesque, style.

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  1. pmiranda2857
    pmiranda2857 Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the story leads to a grotesque and violent end. Additionally, the way that she writes characters and the situations she puts them in allows their real nature to be revealed and this can be horrifying and shocking to readers.

    Flannery O'Connor gives us a view into the human soul, and she doesn't protect her readers from the reality of evil in human nature.

    The character of the grandmother is selfish and demanding and it is because of her that the family encounters Misfit.

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    Posted by pmiranda2857 on Tuesday September 16, 2008 at 2:47 PM


  2. kwoo1213 Teacher
    College - Junior

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    Other things that make this story "grotesque" are the frightening gang of misfits and the calm and resolve they display.  This makes them even creepier, particularly the Misfit.  He is so coldly calculated and does not flinch for a moment when the entire family is being killed, including the baby!  This, to me, makes him purely evil and devoid of human emotion.  

    Other grotesque elements are the way the family is taken one-by-one and taken to the woods and shot, execution-style.  This is deplorable and horrifying!  Can you imagine waiting your turn to be marched into the woods and shot?  It would be unimaginable!

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    http://www.enotes.com/good-man

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    Posted by kwoo1213 on Tuesday September 16, 2008 at 3:36 PM