A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

“A Good Man is hard to find,” is a short story written by Flannery O’ Connor, and it is one of the most interesting stories that I’ve ever come across in my life. After reading the story, I think The Misfit is “playing cool” with the grandmother. I could see that he obviously does not like children. During the interaction with the grandmother, he seems playing along with her, and he even consoles her that her son just says something that he really does not mean. Next, The Misfit gradually expresses himself as “not a good man” as the grandmother thinks he is. And then, he shows off himself as the leader of a group of dangerous criminals who kill people for nothing, as he says. It’s obvious that The Misfit’s view and the grandmother’s view of
In my opinion, she is a person who is living in present time but always recalling and valuing the better time in the past. Yet, she appears not to be of sufficient respect as she could be by the whole family of her only son’s. In some ways, it seems to me that nobody in that only family of hers listens to her or follows her advice/idea, and she somehow has to suffer and accept it as like as she accepts the fact that things change by time and there was no more “the good old days.” Finally, June Star and John Wesley are also very important in this story, I think both of them are not well educated by their parents. In the early pages of the story, I could easily see that they are not well-behave kids. I think they represent the typical young generation that represents for what the grandmother thinks that things have changed by time and that there was no more of good old days of which people were more respectful and better behaving to one another; Both June Star and John Wesley show disrespect to their grandmother in what they say to her, in the way they talk to her, the way they respond to what she says and even to what their parents