A Good Man Is Hard To Find Grandmother Analysis
“It’s no real pleasure in, life,” concludes “A Good Man is hard to find.” Discuss two O’Connor characters, from different stories, explaining how they show her criticism of modern spiritual despair. Note primarily their similarities. The two stories I chose was A Good Man is hard to find and Revelation. I compared the Grandmother and Mrs. Turpin. Both of these women were Christians but they both had major issues. The Grandmother and Mrs. Turpin both represented Christians in today’s society. In Revelation, Mrs. Turpin thought she was heaven sent and thought highly of herself then others. A true Christians knows that the Bible says love your neighbors as you love yourself. The title of the story is also the moral of the story. After Mrs. Turpin was attacked in the doctor’s office she had a revelation. In the vision she seen
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“Upon it a vast horde of souls were rumbling toward heaven. There were whole companies of white-trash, clean for the first time in their lives, and bands of black niggers in white robes, and battalions of freaks and lunatics shouting and clapping and leaping like frogs”(508,O’Connor). This is a vision that Mrs. Turpin had and it follows the bible when the Bible states that the last shall be first and the first shall be last. Throughout the whole story Mrs. Turpin was judgmental like most modern day Christians are. She thought that they were on top of sinners while they are actually the ones on the bottom. In A Good Man is Hard to find, the story was center around a grandmother and her son and his family.
In the story grandmother’s son crash the family car while on a dirt road and run into a small crew of escape convicts that killed the family. The grandmother was the last to die. “In the beginning, the grandmother was more concerned about looking like a respectable person than being one” (Desmond, 2004). “This is shown by her attempts to save her own life, even as family continued to die around her” (Desmond, 2004). In the end, she realizes she has not led a good life and reaches out to touch her killers, the misfit, in a final act of grace and charity (Desmond, 2004). “This “epiphany” resembles the grandmother’s newly found redemption” (Desmond, 2004). “Even though she fails, her attempt is not lost on the Misfits, who remark that through enduring a constant of violence, she would have been a good woman if there had been someone to shoot her every day”(Desmond,2004). The grandmother was on some save yourself type stuff, even though she really believed in Jesus. The Bible also simply states about laying down our life for our
brother. In conclusion, both of these were great stories. The women in both stories were redeemed and I think that they both learned a very important lesson. Mrs. Turpin was just redeemed thought a vision while the grandmother had to experience hers though death. Mrs. Turpin actually received a second chance while the grandmother didn’t I enjoy both stories and I think O’Conner had great morals to both stories. Just embrace who you are and love everybody as you would love yourself.
WORK CITED
Desmond, John (2004), Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit and the Mystery of Evil, Renascence, pp. 129-138
O’Connor, Flannery (1955), The Complete Stories, A Good man is hard to Find, pp.508
“Upon it a vast horde of souls were rumbling toward heaven. There were whole companies of white-trash, clean for the first time in their lives, and bands of black niggers in white robes, and battalions of freaks and lunatics shouting and clapping and leaping like frogs”(508,O’Connor). This is a vision that Mrs. Turpin had and it follows the bible when the Bible states that the last shall be first and the first shall be last. Throughout the whole story Mrs. Turpin was judgmental like most modern day Christians are. She thought that they were on top of sinners while they are actually the ones on the bottom. In A Good Man is Hard to find, the story was center around a grandmother and her son and his family.
In the story grandmother’s son crash the family car while on a dirt road and run into a small crew of escape convicts that killed the family. The grandmother was the last to die. “In the beginning, the grandmother was more concerned about looking like a respectable person than being one” (Desmond, 2004). “This is shown by her attempts to save her own life, even as family continued to die around her” (Desmond, 2004). In the end, she realizes she has not led a good life and reaches out to touch her killers, the misfit, in a final act of grace and charity (Desmond, 2004). “This “epiphany” resembles the grandmother’s newly found redemption” (Desmond, 2004). “Even though she fails, her attempt is not lost on the Misfits, who remark that through enduring a constant of violence, she would have been a good woman if there had been someone to shoot her every day”(Desmond,2004). The grandmother was on some save yourself type stuff, even though she really believed in Jesus. The Bible also simply states about laying down our life for our
brother. In conclusion, both of these were great stories. The women in both stories were redeemed and I think that they both learned a very important lesson. Mrs. Turpin was just redeemed thought a vision while the grandmother had to experience hers though death. Mrs. Turpin actually received a second chance while the grandmother didn’t I enjoy both stories and I think O’Conner had great morals to both stories. Just embrace who you are and love everybody as you would love yourself.
WORK CITED
Desmond, John (2004), Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit and the Mystery of Evil, Renascence, pp. 129-138
O’Connor, Flannery (1955), The Complete Stories, A Good man is hard to Find, pp.508