Good And Evil In A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Good and Evil is one of the most common conventional themes in literature. Every story needs a hero and a villain whether it is a book, movie, or just a storytelling because being good or bad is an intrinsic part of the human condition. But sometimes it is difficult to recognize the real hero and the anti-hero when everybody is bad in a story. This exactly the case in the short story named “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. However, Flannelly O’Connor, the author is subtle in her writing. She exemplifies the duality of right and wrong, guilty and innocent by the two main characters: a grandmother with a rather sense of goodness, and a criminal who embodies the real evil. And throughout the story, the concept of bad or good that was clear in the
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O’Connor uses various symbols to predict the fatal outcome of this family. Gradually, the scenery changes as their exit Atlanta to Tombsborro. ……………First of all, let’s take a look to the name of the town named Tombsborro. Up hearing the name of this location sends shivers down spines. It is the place where the family had an accident, the place where they encountered the Misfit and mostly the place where there were all been executed, in other words, their tomb. …………….Secondly, in the beginning, the author describes the southern landscape providing vivid image of the “Stone mountain with blue granite, brilliant red clay banks and row of green lacework on the ground” (O’Connor 377). By continuing through the story one begins to come across some scattered indications of sadness that little by little becomes a constant theme within the setting. One of the examples to support this assertion is the way the author describes “the old family burying ground”: “a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island" (O’Connor 377). The description of the “dirt road” the family travels on also provides several clues to hint that this road is in fact their death row. It is very symbolic how, following the instructions of his mother and pressured by his children, Bailey turns off the paved road, onto a road where “there were sudden washes in it and sharp curves on dangerous embankments” (O’Connor 380). ……………Finally, after the accident, when the Misfits met the family, the tone of the story, like in a thriller, tragically changed. The forest that surrounded them a few hours before was "full of
O’Connor uses various symbols to predict the fatal outcome of this family. Gradually, the scenery changes as their exit Atlanta to Tombsborro. ……………First of all, let’s take a look to the name of the town named Tombsborro. Up hearing the name of this location sends shivers down spines. It is the place where the family had an accident, the place where they encountered the Misfit and mostly the place where there were all been executed, in other words, their tomb. …………….Secondly, in the beginning, the author describes the southern landscape providing vivid image of the “Stone mountain with blue granite, brilliant red clay banks and row of green lacework on the ground” (O’Connor 377). By continuing through the story one begins to come across some scattered indications of sadness that little by little becomes a constant theme within the setting. One of the examples to support this assertion is the way the author describes “the old family burying ground”: “a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island" (O’Connor 377). The description of the “dirt road” the family travels on also provides several clues to hint that this road is in fact their death row. It is very symbolic how, following the instructions of his mother and pressured by his children, Bailey turns off the paved road, onto a road where “there were sudden washes in it and sharp curves on dangerous embankments” (O’Connor 380). ……………Finally, after the accident, when the Misfits met the family, the tone of the story, like in a thriller, tragically changed. The forest that surrounded them a few hours before was "full of