A Good Man is Hard to Find
By: Flannery O’Conner
This story is told in third person. The tone is set to be one of irony. The
grandmother, the protagonist, is developed as bossy, manipulative and grouchy.
Grandmother is in conflict with herself about the mistake she made about the state
which the plantation house is in. Also grandmother is in conflict with the misfit,
trying to manipulate him so that he doesn’t kill her also. The misfit compares with
the grandmother because they are the only two characters in this story who are
overbearing, bossy and on top of the situation.
Symbols in this story include: The graveyard with five or six graves.
Grandmother remembered the description of the plantation house which had six
columns, right after they passed through Tombsboro. The yellow shirt with the
parrots which Bailey wore indicated he was a mama’s boy who says what his
mother wants to hear. The tower in which the family ate lunch, Red Sammy’s, it
looked like......
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