A Good Man Religious Pt of View
Let's take a look at "A Good Man Is hard to Find".O'Conner really puts the reader in the middle class mode and trough's a little religion at us . In this I mean that she really took us to a important part of her mind and writing. One mite say that she lets the Devil come out in her own little way. In reading " A Good Man is Hard to Find" O'Conner puts me in a setting of a lower middle class family with a domineering mother, grandmother and a whinny mother-in-law. I tend to believe that O'Conner want's her to be the main character. I would say the grandmother is representative of godliness and Christianity. I haven't read a lot of O'Conner's writings. However just from this one story I get the feeling that she could be telling of the changes that took place in the US after W.W. II when violence began to grow rapidly. In the 50's crime was on everyone's mind and in the newspapers. I feel that this story reflects how O'Connor's view that society was drastically changing for the worse. O'Connor's obvious displeasure with society at the time could have been attributed to her Catholic religion !
" Grandma, I believe it is all her making and doing. The gap to me is between the son, mother, kids and killer. I guess that is how his generation acted in those days and time. I think O'Connor was trying to show how deeply concerned with the values and the direction of the youth of that time. The killer's statements about his life especially his own father reflects he too was subject to religious questions. The Son pays little attention to the grandmother and when he does he is often quite rude. If I look at the quote from O'Conner "My subject in fiction is the action in theory is held largely by the devil" I strongly feel she was talking about this particular story. Who was the momentary messiah, the-on-the-spot-Jesus the Judas mother giving up her son in hopes that she might live? These are questions I thought O'Connor was asking in "A Good Man is Hard to Find. Consider the Christian idea of evil as opposed to a divine nation of the "good. Christ accepted death for the sins of all people, however, and not only did the Misfit not do that, but he also killed other innocent people. She may have started believing that Christ was no longer enough of a priority to the people of her generation. She shows us how violent the recipients of this "good" can become and how they resist it and react to it , Religion that is. Upon observing this image, she realizes that to be truly Christlike, she is going to have to forgive the Misfit and accept him as a child of God.
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