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A Good Man is Hard to Find Story Analysis

In this short story, there are many elements of southern Gothicism work that are illustrated by the author that led the reader into the gloomy and dark world of the southern United States. There are several horrors, violence, and dismal surrounding that is illustrated in the story. And there were also moral messages that are shown in the story. Therefore let me focus on how the author uses stylistic techniques to express his meaning.

The traditional location of the story was well illustrated in that the story took place in Georgia at the time the family was traveling to Florida. The grandmother insisted on stopping in Tennessee. This gives a chance for the author to expand on the region set as the hills on the south, blue mountain, fauna of the locale, and flora.

There was an illustration of the element of irony or humor in the story. In the story, there were ironic events that led to deadly tragedy. Otherwise, there was a lot of conflicting and enigmatic dialogue that frames the pathetic begging of the grandmother. At the end of the story, it is the tragic part where the family was murdered in the woods by the Misfit (the most wanted criminal dubbed). The inevitable fate of the family is when they come to cross paths with a mentally ill criminals and the grave mistake by the grandmother when she remembered the detour which she wanted to take was the wrong one, and it was compiled to show how they were prone to death and tragedy. It shows that one decision can destroy everything and life are fickle, it doesn’t often have a good ending.

In the story, there is an element of eccentricity where the June star, misfit, grandmother, and bailing show some traits of stubborn and eccentric behavior. The way in which the owner of the diner also acts means Flannery’s insistence on making her characters stand out by habits and quirks which the readers will find strange to the point. Thus, it’s a difficult problem that is produced in southern golf, and also it’s the reason why the story mostly excludes the traits of the genre entirely.

References

Gooch, Brad. “Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor.” New York: Little, Brown (2009).

O’Connor, Flannery. “Frederick Asals, ed. A good man is hard to find.” Rutgers University Press (1993).

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