Hard To Find Symbolism

I believe The Misfit took his religion serious but he was confused. The grandmother never took her religious faith seriously. Her final gesture is a genuine moment of grace. Once again she is trying to be manipulative, but The Misfit is one who she cannot manipulate, or is she?

Along with foreshadowing, characterization is also an extremely important aspect of “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. O’Connor’s story has many supporting characters, such as the children and the misfit’s accomplices whose characters and personalities can only be shown through their actions. We do not get a clear picture of how they feel, or who they truly are. The main character is a different story however, the grandmother lets us know how she is feeling throughout the story. The grandmother would be considered primarily a stock character, because for the most part, she fills the typical grandmotherly role. She is a nurturer, even if it is only to the baby, and her cat. She is also stuck in her ways of life, and doesn’t wish to change how she is. At the same time however, she is not a perfect fit to the mold. Most grandmothers are not selfish, egocentric, and conniving the way she is. These modifications in her personality cause the reader to be unable to predict what the grandmother is going to do. On the other hand, the Misfit is more than likely different than anyone you have ever meet, or read about. The Misfit’s character was in no waya stock character. Nevertheless it seemed like his actions were slightly easier to predict. While his motives might have been a mystery, I felt that I knew what was going to happen.

Both the Misfit and the Grandmother are living in a false reality and just cannot seem to see the ultimate reality of the world, no matter how many times that they have been shown that the way they do things is not the right way. They both may be considered as very different people by appearance, but in actuality they are both living in a false reality where they always think they are right and nothing they ever do is wrong in their minds. She tries to make him pray and tells him he is

Her characters never seem to find their redemption until they find God at the end. People of Christian faith have often criticized O’Connor’s works for being immoral, but in actuality, she writes about these extreme situations and portrayals of wrongdoing to express the power of God in a positive light. O’Connor both gracefully and skillfully shows the immoral character of the Misfit as well as the enlightened character of the grandmother. The characters in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” evolve through a sort of metamorphosis. There are changes that occur in their views of the world and their perceptions about life and death. In this body of work, we see those changes occur in the Grandmother and in the Misfit. The Misfit is shown to be constantly experiencing a deep inner struggle with his own convictions. We see this clearly in his conversation with the Grandmother. O’Conner’s skillful portrayal of the Misfit helps the reader to detect some obscure details of his behavior. These details, his gestures, his speech, and his thoughts are key elements in determining the Misfit’s state of mind. We see the grandmother become timid over the course of the story. She seems to have some type of identity crisis. Starting off bold and confident, we see the Grandmother very humble and timid by the end. Her ideas of what she should look like and how she should talk no longer mattered. O’Connor also shows that the Grandmother’s idea of a southern

Furthermore, both characters use their god-like positions to try to influence others for personal gain. While the grandmother tries to influence the Misfit into believing God and telling

As the family is getting ready to head out to their desired destination, the grandmother brings up a newspaper article about the Misfit in attempt of changing the family’s destination instead of wanting the family to be safe and happy. Her selfishness and able to manipulate others in order to achieve what she wants is demonstrated through that small part of the story. Also, she makes a great effort to look well-dressed even though her family is dressed casual. She mentions that “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.” She is dressed in her best outfit, as if she were going to meet the lord which is ironic since before the day is out she will actually meet the lord. Having a suitable and ladylike appearance mattered more to her than anything else, even her own life. Despite her personality, the grandmother has important contradictions of her character. From her references to Jesus, the bible, and praying, it appears that she thinks of herself as a Christian

When the grandmother touches him the Misfit and says he is one of her children the Misfit gets surprised as if a snake had bitten him and shots her three times. He was flabbergasted because the grandmother was able to see the Misfit as another suffering human being whom she is obligated to love. Just like Jesus said to loved everyone even your enemies. Even thouhg she knew he had shot her entire family she had hope that the Misfit will ask god for forgiveness and move on. However the Misfit kills the grandmother recoiling from what seems so foreign to him, but he grandmother has already had her momnnt of redemption. She comforted a murderer

If the self-interested and self-righteous Grandmother could experience a moment of forgiveness, empathy, and grace, then, in the “Misfit’s” eyes and mind, there could be a God. He is an intelligent and aware man, and it is clear that he understands this moment to be her time of awakening and salvation, and he also seems to realize that it came through a divine entity outside the realm of physicality. The antithesis to this re-birth, the peak of the “Misfit’s” violence, also happens to, unsurprisingly, occur at this moment. The Grandmother is murdered, “shot… three times in the chest”, right as she reaches out in recognition of the “Misfit” as “one of [her] own

Some people go through life with the preconceived notion that they are better than everyone else. They base their opinion on the way people look and how they act. Some people believe that if they have more material things than another person has, that makes them superior. These narcissistic individuals are only concerned with the popularity and superiority that they have on this Earth, but they fail to realize eventually we will all be the same: a pile of skull and bones six feet under. No matter a person 's race, attractiveness, social or financial class, every single human being will be the same in the end. God is the number one ruler and only He can judge us. American writer, Flannery O’Connor, makes known in her short stories “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” and “Revelation”, that the meaning of life is centered in people 's Redemption by Christ. In both stories, the main characters believe that they are superior to everyone else. The main characters face violent or traumatizing situations or events that pushes them into a moment of crisis that awakens or changes their faith and in the end God grants them grace.

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” a grandmother lead her family to a different place so she could show her grandkids some place back in her hometown. She persuaded her son and his family into taking a detour and it didn’t end so well. This man who they called the misfit had escaped from jail caught up with them at the wrong time and killed every last one of them. One main trait in the story would be Good vs. Evil. The grandmother tried to convince the misfit that he was a good man just so he wouldn’t kill her. Another trait that played a big part in this short story would be, Being an Outsider. This goes for the Misfit because

The irony in the story is shown when the grandmother, who thinks she is a good Christian, in reality is just as evil as the Misfit.

The older girl seems to think that the theme of her aunt's story is that only good people will be saved. In her aunt's story the little girl in it was "good and made friends with everyone on account of her goodness." And the little girl was saved from a bull "by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character." With this short description of the story it implies that only good people will be saved in a bad

The Grandmother wants the Misfit to receive salvation from God, so that he can be forgiven for his sins. Even though the Grandmother got the family into this mess, she can still be viewed as the hero.

In the story "A good man is hard to find", it illustrates the murder of a family by a group of convicts that have escaped and are led by a well known killer called The Misfit. The story has prominent religious characteristics, such as O'Connor's desire for portraying salvation through a violent experience by characters who are physically or spiritually distorted.

Throughout out your life you meet people that are very friendly and help others out and there are people that are selfish and care only about them and what they want. We all have or know that one person that only wants things their way. Also, on the other hand, we have that evil friend or know someone that always wants the worse for you or your surroundings. In the story “A Good Man is Hard To Find” by Flannery O Conner you get introduced to two characters The Grandma and The Misfit. The first character is The Grandma that the author introduces and starts to describe first of what kind of person she is and what she does for the family. The second character that the author introduces is The Misfit and what character he is and what he does. The Misfit and The Grandma are similar in that they are outcasts from the family and society, but they are different in how they react to being outcasts.