O Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find
O’Connor’s A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
Katherine Keil notes similarities between O’Connor’s story and alternate famous pieces of literature such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She compares the grandmother and the sailor in a few ways: their ability to alienate themselves, their selfishness, and their need to empathize as human beings. She indicates another similarity; both having epiphanies. While the sailors is said to be an “ongoing spiritually energizing earthly life”, the grandmother conceives a “Christian resurrection and eternal life.” Lastly, they both achieved clarity of vision and prove that “A good man is hard to find.”
(Keil K. O'Connor's A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND. Explicator [serial online]. Fall 2006 …show more content…
Bryant depicts a few details to help with the foreshadowing of the story. Hallman describes O’Connor’s careful writing, from choosing the locations to the distances related to the time.
“Considering the conditions of Georgia roads in the late 1940’s, one had to drive under 50 m.p.h. to keep from knocking the wheels out of line from the numerous potholes that Governor Talmadge’s highway people never patched.” (Hallman 306)
He notes that the stories uses real locations for every noted place except for the town of Timothy; which he believes alludes to the bible.
(Bryant H. READING THE MAP IN 'A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND'. Studies In Short Fiction [serial online]. Summer81 1981;18(3):301. Available from: EBSCO MegaFILE, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 30, 2015.)
A Good God Is Hard to Find
In this article, Alexander Nazaryan talks about Flannery O’Connor’s faith and her A Prayer Journal. In O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal, she had pleaded with God “to see the bareness and the miser of the places where You are not adored;” and God had granted her just that. It’s much comparable to the grandmother who pleaded “Jesus,” which made the Misfit angered and ultimately led to her …show more content…
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Section III: Discussion Questions
O’Connor is famous for her literary irony, what part of the story’s events showcase this literary effect?
A Good Man is Hard to Find has been called grotesque, meaning it is “comically or repulsively ugly or distorted;” although, Flannery O’Connor prefers to call it literal. What category would you say the literature fits?
The author provides some foreshadowing throughout the story; what kind of examples can you provide?
Leading up to the end, the grandmother was extremely difficult and persistent. Do you feel compassion for her? Why or why not?
When the family meets The Misfit, eventually they are all sent to the woods except for the grandmother. Why do you think O’Connor wrote the story this way?
If the grandmother had not announced that she had recognized The Misfit, do you think the story might have had a different
Katherine Keil notes similarities between O’Connor’s story and alternate famous pieces of literature such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She compares the grandmother and the sailor in a few ways: their ability to alienate themselves, their selfishness, and their need to empathize as human beings. She indicates another similarity; both having epiphanies. While the sailors is said to be an “ongoing spiritually energizing earthly life”, the grandmother conceives a “Christian resurrection and eternal life.” Lastly, they both achieved clarity of vision and prove that “A good man is hard to find.”
(Keil K. O'Connor's A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND. Explicator [serial online]. Fall 2006 …show more content…
Bryant depicts a few details to help with the foreshadowing of the story. Hallman describes O’Connor’s careful writing, from choosing the locations to the distances related to the time.
“Considering the conditions of Georgia roads in the late 1940’s, one had to drive under 50 m.p.h. to keep from knocking the wheels out of line from the numerous potholes that Governor Talmadge’s highway people never patched.” (Hallman 306)
He notes that the stories uses real locations for every noted place except for the town of Timothy; which he believes alludes to the bible.
(Bryant H. READING THE MAP IN 'A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND'. Studies In Short Fiction [serial online]. Summer81 1981;18(3):301. Available from: EBSCO MegaFILE, Ipswich, MA. Accessed November 30, 2015.)
A Good God Is Hard to Find
In this article, Alexander Nazaryan talks about Flannery O’Connor’s faith and her A Prayer Journal. In O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal, she had pleaded with God “to see the bareness and the miser of the places where You are not adored;” and God had granted her just that. It’s much comparable to the grandmother who pleaded “Jesus,” which made the Misfit angered and ultimately led to her …show more content…
107-18.
Section III: Discussion Questions
O’Connor is famous for her literary irony, what part of the story’s events showcase this literary effect?
A Good Man is Hard to Find has been called grotesque, meaning it is “comically or repulsively ugly or distorted;” although, Flannery O’Connor prefers to call it literal. What category would you say the literature fits?
The author provides some foreshadowing throughout the story; what kind of examples can you provide?
Leading up to the end, the grandmother was extremely difficult and persistent. Do you feel compassion for her? Why or why not?
When the family meets The Misfit, eventually they are all sent to the woods except for the grandmother. Why do you think O’Connor wrote the story this way?
If the grandmother had not announced that she had recognized The Misfit, do you think the story might have had a different