Compare And Contrast A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Soldier's Home

All throughout literature there have been many stories and poems that have been written by many famous authors. Doing a lot of my research that I have done before I have found that a lot of poems and stories have some sort of thing to do with death or dying. While looking through my Comp II book, I came across two stories that caught my eye: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Conner and “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway. Both stories talk both death and what it is like to witness death.

In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” author, Flannery O’Conner talks about how the misfit had been hiding things from people and sinned to God by murdering someone. The so called “good” grandmother had lied to her grandchildren and manipulated her son.

In the story O’Conner states that “There was a pistol shot from the woods, followed closely by another. Then silence. The old lady’s head jerked around. She could hear the wind move through the tree tops like a long satisfied insuck of breath. ‘Bailey Boy!’ she called” (O’Connor 1017). “The family is led into the woods to be murdered, while the Misfit talks with the grandmother about his religious doubts. In a moment of Christian sympathy, the grandmother informs the Misfit that he is one of her children,” I personally believe that Bailey was murdered by the misfit, “The Misfit shoots her and says if “it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life” she would have been a good woman. He yells at a crony who says the murders were fun,” (A Good Man…At a Glance). The author writes in his story about the conversation between the grandma and the misfit that, "‘I just know you're a

Hemingway writes about how, “Krebs enlisted into the Marine’s in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from Rhine in the summer of 1919,” (Hemingway). “Soldier’s Home” talks about how difficult it may be once you are in the military, “Harold Krebs returns home and is tormented by the experiences that he had. As the story goes on, Harold eventually comes to realize that he shouldn’t be in his childhood home anymore. Therefore, he decides to leave and go on about his life somewhere else, somewhere new,” (Admin). The article "In the story "Soldier's Home," the author writes about what it is like coming home after witnessing a gruesome battle, “After witnessing death and destruction while participating in some of the war’s most bloody battles, Krebs returns home where his parents try to coax him to return to his old