A Good Man Is Hard To Find Literary Analysis

So what makes a story? The symbolism and images that authors use in there writing can have so many different features. “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and the story “A good man is hard to find,” by Flannery O’Connor both are written by great authors that have great work. Both the writers use different features to make their story stand out. They only use a few features, but both their writers use a lot of the same ideas. These stories are so different but at the same time they have a lot of resemblances. These stories are full of irony, mainly situational irony. The design of the stories takes a completely different turn, from what the readers expect.
There are so many comparisons that are in both these stories. The main characters in both stories are greedy or selfish. The American in “Hills like White Elephants” is very into himself, so when he talks to Jig he is very firm with things he say just like; “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig. It’s really not
anything. It’s just to let the air in,” (Hemingway,116) and “I won’t worry about that because it’s perfectly simple.” (Hemingway,116) Readers notice he is trying to persuade Jig to get an abortion, because that’s what he wants.
The greedy American is just like the grandma in the, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The family is planning a trip to Florida but the grandmother wants to go to Tennessee and there is
no agreement with her. Just like the American in “Hills like White Elephants” she wants everyone to go with her idea. The way she is convincing them is that there is possible danger; “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did.” (O’Connor, 404) On how greedy these characters are, there has been a lot of issues and the readers see this in these stories and can sees how greed can be the reason for awful consequences.
There is a few similarities that happen in the stories. O’Connor talks about graves and hearse like vehicles to symbolize that there will be death soon. She also uses characters that are to symbolize higher power, like Jesus and the devil. The symbolism that O’Connor uses is to show the meanings in the story. This is very similar to the symbolism that happens in “Hills like White Elephants.” For example, Hemingway relies on how he uses symbolism to use his theme throughout the story. When Hemingway expresses the hills and very brown and not living or how green they are to describe the result of choices. These stories are very similar, but they are also different as well.
In these stories both authors use most of the same sort of elements.
In the “Hills like White Elephants,” there are sometimes not much detail to know what’s happening in story especially when they are referring to the operations. If you’re a reader that can notice the elements, then you wont be able to figure out the plot right away. The way Hemingway writes his story it makes the stories have an unexpected twist. For the “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the writer uses an inverted technique. O’Connor provides a lot of the details for all the events that are happening in the story. She does this so the readers can know what’s happening throughout the story, lets the reader look for why things are happening, by doing this the readers knows the
theme.
These two writers perhaps didn’t write this for an exact reason. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” this had some areas that pertain religion. It talks about the grandmother gets escape through the barrel of The Misfit’s gun. The way how the body of the grandmother can show innocent “who half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child’s and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky” (O’Connor, 416) When the audience reads “Hills like White Elephants,” Hemingway decided to show a moral to the story, rather than a religious one. This is the symbolic materials, such as the hills and the symbolism of the characters that help the reader understand the theme.
Clearly, the both the stories are a lot of similarities that make them unique. Therefore, what makes each story different? So its not what the writer puts in their story, it is how and why the author writes what they do. While these are comparisons, they are also important. The only thing that might come along is why and how the author writes what they did.