A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Summary 6

Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," is about a family taking a trip to Florida that all get killed by an escaped convict, how calls himself the Misfit, and two of his friends. In this story the reader may assume some of the men in the story is the man the title refers to, but as the story unfolds, and the family continues on their journey, every man on the story displays a considerable fault. With Regard's to Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" this essay will analyze the narrator's Irony, main characters, foreshadowing, and some symbolism. There are several ironies dispersed in O'Conners short story. At the beginning, the grandmother is opposed to go to Florida on vacation, but when the time arrived to depart, she is the first passenger seated in the car. Another example is the entire time she is trying to change her son Bailey's mind, she used a prison escape as the primary reason not to proceed to Florida, and ironically, they confront the fugitive in a strange twist of fate. In another instance, the grandmother insists on taking her cat on vacation with her and her justification for having to take the cat is that the cat could brush against on to the burners, turn them on and suffocate himself. The cat, is in fact, the perpetrator that causes the accident and near the end of the story when the family meets with foul play, the cat is the only survivor. Irony again is presented when they are driving. The grandmother cautions Bailey about his driving and it so happens they have an accident. As soon as the grandmother talks Bailey into taking a turn to see the farmhouse, Bailey makes the statement, "This is the only time we are going to stop for anything like this" (A Good Man is Hark to Find pg. 359). The irony here is Bailey did not know how final that statement would turn out to be. Near the beginning of their trip, the family stops at a restaurant. The owner tells how some men stopped by a short time ago and follows