“A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” is a story of tragedy about a family planning a vacation against the grandmother’s better judgment. The grandmother wishes to take a trip to Tennessee, because of a convict on the loose. Bailey is planning a trip to Florida even though the grandmother warns him that the “Misfit” is heading toward Florida. Before their long journey to Florida, […]

Courtney BarnesPage 1 Intro to Lit. Prof. Rupp Feb 18 2013 You’ve Got Good Blood Literary Analysis of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” By Flannery O’Connor “You’ve got good blood. ” “I know you come from nice people,(504) cried the grandmother. “Pray! ”(505) she pleads using grace and religion to plead to the better nature of what she thinks is still a good […]

A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, brings a story in which she connects her experience as a victim of lupus erythematosus with her writings. The story begins with an ordinary family that embarks on a journey that becomes the last of their lives as the journey approaches to an end, as well as their […]

The Moths by Helena Maria Viramontes “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes is a story about a young girl who shows feelings of isolation and immaturity. It is apparent that she isolates herself from her family because she always stays with her grandma. The narrator expresses the theme by showing how the young teen feels the exact opposite with her grandma to the way she […]

The definition that is given to characters also proves the main thesis of the author. In Flannery O’Conner’s short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” she shows how the character is a reflection of good and evil among each individual. The grandmother in the story becomes the representation of light and dark of an individual and how one can become hypocritical in various […]

O’Connor, in response to her critics note that a certain amount of the significance “A Good Man is Hard to Find” lies in its utility in terms of teaching as well as in literary analysis. However, in relation to this aforementioned utility, O’Connor also notes that the text should not be reduced to “a problem to be solved” to the extent that it is treated […]

Even before the story unfolds there is simple irony that in Just the title of A Good Man Is Hard To Find, where a nice family vacation turns Into a disastrous murder. When I first began reading, I never thought that the story would have such an ending. The mood of the story went from normal to sad fairly quickly. There was an example of […]

Character as Reflection in O’Connor’s, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is faced with her own moral beliefs. Throughout the story, she proves to be self center and hypocritical. Although her family wants to go to Florida for vacation, she tries to persuade them to go to Tennessee because she wants to see […]

The short story named “A Good Man is Hard to Find” was written by Flannery O’Connor. In this story the main character was the grandmother. The beauty of the story is that O’Connor lets the reader find out who the grandmother is by her reactions and conversations to the other characters in the story. This paper will analyze the role of grandmother in the story […]