Flannery O’Connor’s, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” shows how in the face of tragedy one’s perspective and even morals can change in an instant. O’Connor addresses a number of problematic issues and ideas, mostly through her devout Catholic faith. In this story we find that that the characters have been exposed to shocking violence as a means of achieving an ultimate and meaningful moment. No one is free of sin and as a result we all fall short of the glory of God and are in need of redemption.
This story commences as a simple family drama, with a deceitful and self centered grandmother who causes the death of her family. Her deceitful ways, exemplified in the action of bringing her cat along and hiding him in the car, do not coincide however with the Christian image that the grandmother seems to have of herself. “For her, religion is “an easily acquired” part of her respectability” (Richard Evans, 184). We also see throughout the story that the......
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