A Good Man is Hard to Find Critique

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O’Connor usually aligns her story in religious aspects, and in this story depicts salvation through shocking i. e. spiritually grotesque character undergo violent experience. The most notable aspect of the story is the how O’Connor effectively uses local colour, comic detail and her ability to record with a keen ear the idiosyncratic dialect of characters. Summary In the story ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ the author attempts to present his fundamental idea of destiny by familiarizing the reader to a family's vacation which culminates to sudden death trap by a murder. Finally, The Misfit is left with the pleading grandmother who tried to bargain for her life by asking him to pray. The Misfit claims that “Jesus offers no choice between blind faith and violent nihilism”, a pain than connected the grandmother to the Misfit.

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The grandmother tries to reach out to the Misfit and just before he could touch him, he shoots her three times in the chest and murders her. Critique Toward the start of the story, the author illustrates that the family was to endure in the hands of Misfit. O'Connor viably utilizes characterization in this story. O’Connor uses superficially natural style to mute the story’s religious concerns cleverly by using a series of motifs and emblems. The detour through the wood by Bailey depicts a disastrous change in behaviour by a Christian in search of desires by human soul. Similarly, The Misfit, symbolizes the despair and guilt that is carried by a fallen sinner. It can also be argued that the way the grandmother recognises her kinship ties with The Misfit shows redemption of her life from the petty, materialistic and selfish characters.

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