Crystal Thomas
Professor Spurlock
EN 2203/03
February 23, 2006
Taking a Good Look in Point of View in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Flannery O’Connor uses all kind of things in the short story “A Good Man is
Hard to Find.” In this story she portrays how the south was back in the 1950’s. She uses point of view to tell the story of a family who goes out on vacation gone wrong. It involves a grandmother, her only son, wife, and her spoiled grandchildren.
On their way to Florida, the grandmother convinces the family to go to see an old house, and while going to see the old house the get into an accident. The Misfit, an murderer who escapes out of prison along with his buddies, Bobby Lee and Hiram stops and offers to help them out. After that the grandmother recognizes quickly and speaks out and says, “You’re The Misfit!’ she said. “I recognized you at once!’” (p. 436). The Misfits says that it would have been better for them that she did notice him and that’s when the......
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