St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolf

Two of the negative character traits, avarice and hubris, portrayed by Claudette and Grandmother, in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, makes them evil. For example, in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” the girls earn skill points as they progress; Claudette expresses her greed for skill points that when she is at risk of losing them she blames her sister, Mirabella, although she was trying to help. This is obvious when she says, “ I wasn’t talking to you… I didn't want your help.” Similarly, the Grandmother shows a sense of avarice when she tells her grandchildren about a suitor she once had. She says, “... She would have done well to marry Mr. Teagarden
because he was a gentleman and had bought Coca-Cola stock when it first came out and he died only a few years ago a very wealthy man.” This shows her greed because she would rather be wealthy than be a part of a loving and caring family. Furthermore, Claudette also possess the character trait of lust; Claudette has a sister, Mirabella, who was struggling with learning the confounding etiquette. She started to ostracize Mirabella from herself, but as time went on Claudette started to find her more annoying and desired her to leave the school. She says, “But the truth is that by stage 3, I wanted [Mirabella] gone.” Additionally, the Grandmother shows lust in her disposition towards the end of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” When a bespectacled man, who happened to be a serial killer known as The Misfit, approached her family after they had a car accident, the Grandmother makes several attempts to persuade him to not to kill her; she does not even beg for the lives of the rest of her family members. Overall, the character traits of avarice and hubris makes both characters, Claudette and the Grandmother, seem evil because with these traits the downfall of others were caused.