A Good Man Is Hard To Find Analysis

Reading between the lines of Flannery O’Connor’s work “A good Man is hard to find” leaves the reader puzzled and engrossed as their minds remains onto the setting of the story. The story begins with a bad mood, and the reader keeps waiting for good to prevail over it, but unlike most stories, the ending is a captivating draw.
The writer employs a set of literature techniques like imagery, conflicts, irony, foreshadowing and simile to give the story a unique plot and characterization. In the story, the writer introduces unique characters with recurrent conflicts and different mindsets. The underlying theme in the story is the relationship that is best demonstrated by the grandmother. The character shows that facet of togetherness along the

Had the grandmother realizes the Misfit; she would have sealed the fates of all the family members. Bailey’s statement on the scene shows that he recognized the Misfit and showed that at the end of everything, all that count is the family attachment. Everyone was going to die. On realizing that Bailey knows the plan, the Misfit sends him together with his son, to their fate, death. The role of relationship is evident in our everyday lives. People might get offended or tired of their family and friends, but the end of dangerous situations justifies that our relational attachment compels us to save the ones we love. Humans always look for ways of survival, in spite of the consequences. The grandmother shows this aspect through her plea to be let free. After all others get killed, she appeals to the Misfit to have mercy on her since she is an old woman. She talks about religion and the fact that the Misfit is of a “good blood” that wouldn’t shoot an old lady. “I know you come from nice people! Pray! Jesus, you ought, not to shoot a lady. I’ll give you all the money I’ve got (O’Connor 132). Her hope is to get spared, and live in remembrance of a good family relationship they had

An example of it appears when the old lady states that his son should not take the children anywhere as danger is inevitable along the way. She says a dangerous killer is on the loose. Later in the story, the grandmother is talking to John Wesley, asking what he would do in case he runs into the Misfit. Wesley says he would smack his face. The element of foreshadowing comes into reality as the family tries to show children the famous plantation. They run into the Misfit. Later in the story, the family drives across some coffee fields with several graves fenced at the middle of the field. Again this foreshadowing represents their pending