Essay On A Good Man Is Hard To Find

A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor is one of the most renowned short-story authors. She often used her experiences of growing up in the south and her religious background as the setting for her stories. She grew up in the mid-20th century in Savannah, Georgia with her family on their farm and used Georgia as the setting for her short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O’Connor wrote about a road trip gone wrong in A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The first thing that is going to be discussed are the Characters in this story. Grandmother can be described as a cranky and nasty old woman who uses derogatory terms and is trying to get her way with which direction the car will be going in. She did not want to go to Florida, like the rest of the family did, she wanted to go to Tennessee to visit friends and was going to do everything in her power to change her sons mind. Bailey, her son, was the one driving his family down to Florida despite what his mother was telling him about the criminal on the loose. He was getting pulled in one direction from his mom and the other direction with his wife. The children’s mother, who does not have a name,
It is very hard to figure out if she is likeable or not. On one hand she is trying to warn her family about the dangers they could face if they continue on their journey to Florida. But on the other hand it is hard to dislike her because of how she is turns out to be right in the end. She uses satire when she is setting the tone for the family dynamics in the car on the way to their destination in Florida. Not only was the arguing out of control but the fact that O’Connor wrote about grandmother’s cat joining the family on the trip is hilarious. The irony of the story is no matter how large the state of Florida is and how unlikely it is for the family to run into the convict and his gang, they somehow end up doing