"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is grotesque tale of evil epitomized through two very different characters, yet are surprisingly similar. When one thinks of a grandmother, the words, "dear and old" come to mind. So normally, one would naturally expect the grandmother to represent a pure goodness and a serial killer, on the other hand is precisely the opposite in this case. Similarly, one would expect the old woman to depict life and the Misfit death, yet again in this story it portrays the opposite. But most importantly the both represent two depictions of evil. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" exemplifies through this traveling narrative that life without a spirituality is a living death, but ironically it is through her serendipic meeting with the Misfit, even though it is fatal, she finds salvation through her own spiritual epiphany. In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the two portrayals of evil are symbolized through grandmother and the Misfit.
This fateful meeting occurred when the car occupied by the grandmother and her dysfunctional family make a turn for the worst. This turn is caused by grandmother's wise tale that there a large sum of money located in a house, when this Agatha Ch
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In this story, the misguided family has to cross paths with someone who will bring them back to Him. This grandmother and the Misfit's ignorance to God are the causes of this sinfulness. It lucidly says that one is either a believer or one is not, and the Grandmother is not. It is this lack of God in our lives, and misinterpretation of what God represents that creates a evil environment. However the Misfit and Grandmother are difference lies in the fact that the Grandmother finds her salvation and the Misfit will never find his. Now, he is defined by his adversarial stance toward the world and its wisdom. And that is where this story relates to society because it can be applied in any day and age. The Misfit is a flawed prophet helping others find God but incapable of helping himself. She associates this home with Southern gentility that she believes her parrot-like son, his vegetable-like wife, and ignorant, bratty children lack.
The grandmother falsely associates being well dressed and respectful with Godliness. It has common sinfulness of being born into a world bigotry or hatred for a particular race that is ingrained in someone. The grandmother keeps throwing the name of Jesus at the Misfit, not understanding that his profound alienation stems from his inability to subscribe to the shallow beliefs to which the grandmother has paid lip service all her life. Before her death, she gains salvation when she recognizes her self in the Misfit when she says, "Why you're one of my babies!" She is ironically killed when she finally finds God through forgiveness. This is grained Grandmother's philosophy when she nonchantantly refers to the black children with derogatory names. He is a misguided youth in our society who lacks faith because he can not see God and where is the God in all this hate.
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