Similarities In Two Story

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Jessica Boddie
Mrs. Caskey
English 101
25 February 2014
Similarities In Two Stories
All stories have basic similarities. Most stories are defined by their writing style. An author must reach their readers by connecting to them personally. You can usually tell when the same author is writing the stories you read but, there are a lot of stories that seem to be related even though they have different authors. Both “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People” have similar settings, character, and outcomes.

In both stories the setting is in the South. We learn that the family in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is from Georgia when the family was talking about taking a vacation from Georgia to Florida. In “Good Country People” you do not know exactly where they are from. You learn they are from the south when Freeman say’s “I see you ain’t ate many of them figs you put up last summer.” (O’Conner 438) This quote shows that they are in the south by using southern talk.

The next similarity in these stories are the characters, The Misfit and Manley Pointer. First, they bo...

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