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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the Misfit is an escaped convict who has been in jail for murdering his father. Of course, the Misfit claims that his father "died in nineteen...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Connor's no-holds-barred story inspires us to question how good and evil are defined. Perhaps, in that sense, how we relate good versus evil in the story will depend on how we judge or interpret...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Author Flannery O'Connor's life and beliefs heavily influenced her writing in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." O'Connor was a prominent Catholic writer and she openly acknowledged the significant role...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Key themes O'Connor explores in this story are grace and redemption. Despite a comic opening as an all-American 1950s family vacation saga, events in this tale soon turn grim. When the family car...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Connor makes this comparison when the grandmother is about to be killed by the Misfit. Turkey hens often make calls, which sound like yelps, when they are summoning their young. Therefore, the...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In an attempt to convince the Misfit not to kill her, the grandmother repeatedly asserts that the Misfit is "a good man" and that he isn't "common." The irony of this statement is that the Misfit...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Throughout the story, the grandmother has been uncharitable towards her family and other people. Only at the last moment, when she embraces the Misfit as her own son, does she show true charity and...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The main foreshadowed event in this story is the family's--and most particularly--the Grandmother's encounter with the Misfit, who is mentioned by the Grandmother in the first paragraph of the...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
One of the most baffling moments in Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" occurs near the end, when the grandmother insists the Misfit is a "good man" despite repeated examples to the...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
As the grandmother rides with her ungrateful son, his disrespectful children, and his characterless wife on their way to a vacation in Florida, she describes an old plantation house she had once...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
One salient symbol in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is the shape of a cross into which the grandmother's legs contort after the Misfit shoots her. This cross made by the grandmother symbolizes her...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Connor employs repetitive syntax, keeping some sentences quite short, in order to impact tone and mood and even help to develop characterization. Syntax refers to the arrangement of words and...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
There are certainly elements of O'Connor's story that are comedic. For example, the grandchildren are so exceedingly awful to their grandmother that their behavior is somewhat funny in how...
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Literature
Let me address your second question first, in regard to the Misfit's statement about the grandmother being a good woman if she would have been threatened with death every moment of her life. In...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Connor was a Roman Catholic whose writing was deeply influenced by her Christian theology. In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the difficult, annoying, manipulative grandmother, as unlikely a...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Despite the fantastic and grotesque nature of events that unfold at the end of the story, O'Connor is at pains to depict her characters as members of an ordinary, flawed, 1950s All-American family:...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The grandmother's mention of the Misfit serves as foreshadowing and irony and adds to the characterization of the grandmother. The grandmother is a manipulative and rather selfish woman who does...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Thesis Statement: In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," violence is a means to redeeming grace. Miss O'Connor once wrote, Redemption is meaningless unless there is a cause for it in...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
You might go with the following: In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the grandmother's conception of morality has a great deal more to do with whether or not one agrees with her...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor is a mean-spirited, self-centered woman who is focused on proving her superiority. For example, she entreats her son, Bailey, to...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
What may be considered a dominant impression is the grandmother's salvation at a most unsuspected moment, and it is a moment of violence, as well. Flannery O'Connor herself has stated that she uses...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The grandmother, in the first part of the story, is characterized as having anxieties--she worries about news reports of the Misfit being on the loose and sneaks her cat into the car for the road...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Misfit is a character of surprising depth. He is first introduced to the readers as a vague fear, one that represents the possibility of violence in the world. Then, at his first appearance, he...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The mother doesn't really seem to do very much in the story at all. She isn't even given a name -- she's just "the children's mother" who had a "face [...] as broad an innocent as a cabbage...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the family is very dysfunctional and never really works together. The conflict between the grandmother and the rest of the family is central to...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Exposition is a literary device that provides background information in a piece of writing. In this instance, you are looking for background information on three characters in Flannery...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In this short story, Flannery O'Connor uses the simple or compound sentence with subject-verb-object construction almost exclusively. (Compound sentences join two simple sentences together with a...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
1) long and rambling is an incorrect answer. A long and rambling sentence would be extensive and repetitive, going on for a while and saying irrelevant or unnecessary things. 2) humorous and...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Misfit is explaining his history to the grandmother when he says this line. Just prior, she said "Jesus, Jesus" again and again, implying that Jesus could help him, "but the way she was saying...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Southern setting is very important to the story for a few reasons. First off, the "good man" the grandmother keeps talking about seems to be the sort of person from the past, and not...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
One of the most striking similarities between the Misfit and the grandmother is their hypocrisy. The Misfit is clearly a criminal, yet declares that he calls himself “The Misfit” because he...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
It is quite possible that the children and their behavior in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are, in part, responsible for the story's outcome. There is no question that the...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Like many older people, the Grandmother remembers the past as better than the present. She reminisces about it in part because that is typically what older people do, but also because she has low...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
"A Good Man to Find" offers an important slice of social history about the way highways opened up society in the 1950s. First, the new and improved highways allowed families like Bailey's in the...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," as does most of her writing, employs simple sentences that offset the colorful speech of the characters and highlight the climactic...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
O'Connor's landscape combines vestiges of the old South with a depiction of 1950s all-American middle-class life. The 1950s elements include the nuclear family of mother, father, son, and daughter,...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother is the central character in the story. Though her personality does not change throughout the story, her presence does. She...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
It would be difficult to define "Good Man is Hard to Find" as a feminist work. First, the central female character, the Grandmother, is not a feminist figure. She continually defines herself as a...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a deeply religious story about grace and redemption, written by a devout Catholic. It demonstrates O'Connor's belief that the Holy Spirit can break into the worst of...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
I am not sure if I understand your question correctly, but I think you are asking about the religious discussion the grandmother has with the Misfit. On page 149 the old lady asks the Misfit...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
There are many possible themes in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." One of the central themes is the conflict between good and evil. Throughout much of the story, the grandmother...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
It isn't just the mother who is nameless, but the grandmother as well. The only female to have a name is the female child, June Star. Not naming the mother symbolizes that she is, as you point out,...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The links I am including below will be so helpful to you! One is an article that outlines exactly what a character analysis should be, and the other will take you straight to a discussion of the...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The conflict at the beginning of the story is that the grandmother does not want to go to Florida. At the beginning of the story, the grandmother is trying to convince her son that they should not...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In Flannery O'Connor's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother is a central character. Her speech reveals several things about her. She often speaks of the past, which shows how...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The grandmother encounters the man she has read about, the Misfit; faced with death with him, she recognizes herself as a sinner like him, and she receives grace as she dies. The self-righteous...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
As he is presented in the story, Bailey is most certainly a flat character. He is uncomplicated and he does not undergo any significant change in the story. Because the grandmother is set in her...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
An escaped convict, the man who calls himself "The Misfit" renamed himself because he could not make what he had done align with the punishment that he had been given. But, there is a deeper...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
While the story is written using the third person point of view, O'Connor uses the grandmother as the principal character and tells the story mainly from her perspective. When analyzing the point...
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
In Flannery O'Connor's story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the grandmother is concerned with appearances. She cares about how the children act and how she is dressed. Before they leave for their...