This essay attempts to explain the message behind Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
Title: This essay attempts to explain the message behind Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 681 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
This essay attempts to explain the message behind Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 681 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Du-Ewa Sanabria
Honors English Composition 1101
Prof. R.M. Stambaugh
February 3, 2003
A Good Man's Message
At first glance, this story is grotesque, horrifying and very disturbing. The shock value of the story is not lost even though the family's fate is quite evident quite early on.The terror is in knowing and hoping against hope that this is not so. Then you are forced to analyze why such a story is necessary and what message could …showed first 75 words of 681 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 681 total…to evaluate what we believe, who we are and who we whish to be. I think this is
O'Connor's way of urging us not to wait until that moment.
Works Cited
O'Connor, Flannery. "A good Man is Hard to Find" The Short Story and it's Writer. Ed. Ann
Charters. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2003 1142-1153
---. "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" The Short Story and it's Writer. Ed. Ann Charters.
Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2003 1671-1674
