A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’connor
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Essay title: A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’connor
A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor
The character of “The Misfit”, in the story, “A good man is hard to find”, explains the author’s choice for the title. When the misfit, came upon the accident site of the family, the character of the grandmother, became the main person to interact with the misfit.
She had stated earlier, when she read the article in the paper about his escape from prison, that she wouldn’t take the children anywhere with him on the loose. Ironically it was her idea not to go to Florida and instead to Tennessee that put them in the position that they were in.
The old lady tried her best to reason with him and asked him to pray to Jesus. Obviously he felt that it was Jesus’ fault that the world was the way it was, and how he became who he was. He felt that Jesus had thrown everything of balance, by raising the dead.
From the time he was young he was told that he was different from his brothers and sisters. That he would always get into everything. He had done prison time for killing his father, although he claimed that it wasn’t true. That he had died of the flu. He didn’t even