Compare And Contrast A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner are both iconic writers. Their stories are often deals within the same works and different class of people. They both repeatedly focus on southern backdrops and characters, also deals with cultural corruption, and more commonly having conflicts between different generations in one’s family. These two writers never have a happy ending in the story: its either death or downfall of a man. Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Faulkner’s “A Rose For Emily” have similar traits of their writing. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about how a grandmother convinces her son to take her family to Tennessee but The Misfit kills them. “A Rose for Emily” is about Emily Grierson who is from a wealthy family.

Faulkner’s story is about a wealthy women is exposed to have decayed body of her lover, are two examples of southern gothic styled stories. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother and her family is traveling to Tennessee and gets stuck in an accident. They are relieved when they see a car turn towards them but soon their relief diminishes. However, when they realize that the man driving the car is none other than Misfit an escaped murderer. The Misfit has two partners; they take the family away and kill them. After murdering the grandmother the Mistfit later says, “”She would have been a good woman,” …”if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life””(433). “A Rose for Emily,” is about a woman named Emily, who is the only member of from her family living. Soon when she dies, people of her town are in shock to see a decayed body of her lover who had been assumed that he left Emily years back. The story ends when the town sees something dreadful. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair”

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” for example, the Grandmother had a big hand in making plans for the vacation. But, she was not happy on her son Bailey’s decision to go Florida; instead she wanted to go Tennessee. The Grandmother tries and convinces the family no to go Florida; she tells everyone about an escaped convict who is also headed the same route. She says””… I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did” (422). Here is when the irony occurs, at the Grandmother’s request, the family takes the alternate route to Tennessee. But, the route they have chosen leads them directly to The Misfit. In, “A Rose for Emily,” the entire story tied up with many ironies. For instance, when the narrator of the story tells how Emily’s dad Mr. Griersons are really good and well do southern family, and “believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were” (518). Emily’s father thought there is no man that is good enough for his daughter. Emily was really anxious for a man and falls in love with Homer. Emily’s love for Homer is so ironic. Emily was desperate to own him that she creates death marriage with Homer. She murders the person who she loves the most, in order to have everlasting bond with him. Their marriage is an imaginary from Emily’s vision, and at last Emily thinks she has created