Compassion In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

In the article “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” Flannery O’Connor Talks about compassion stating “It's considered an absolute necessity these days for writers to have compassion.” In his earlier work “A Good Man is Hard to Find” we have a story in which Flannery O’Conner critiques the idea of needing compassion. The characters themselves are caricatures of those earlier times. As well are the areas portrayed in the short story are picturesque of what one would think of the south. Flannery O’Conner uses these generic representations to allow the reader to easily invest themselves in the story and at the end realize they do not require compassion. In doing so through these characters and environments we can see the social views of O’Connor’s time period.
The Family in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” portrays a southern family that is well off. In their interactions we can see the
The Father Bailey portrays the rich father figure. He does very little interaction letting the kids run around and act how they please. When he does participate with the others it is mostly in a violent and angry way such as causing the misfit to blush and apologize to the grandmother.
The mother evokes

The news today with access to more info than the time of the story is bleaker and depressing as they look for the next piece that will catch he viewers’ attention like the Misfit did with the grandmother. Similarly to the children and husband with the always online norms we nowadays have we are reducing the effective social skills of the future population. At the same time like the overly fake religiousness of the grandmother an overtly friendly culture has become the norm being pushed as the social norm may very well cause more individuals like the Misfit to appear in society as nothing is currently being done to deal with mental issues on a large social