“A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” is a story of tragedy about a family planning a vacation against the grandmother’s better judgment. The grandmother wishes to take a trip to Tennessee, because of a convict on the loose. Bailey is planning a trip to Florida even though the grandmother warns him that the “Misfit” is heading toward Florida. Before their long journey to Florida, […]

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” In the short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” there is irony all through the pages. It shows how you should follow your gut instinct when you think you shouldn’t go somewhere, when you know something bad is going to happen. In the story it also talks about how the grandmother wore her nice clothes in […]

Even before the story unfolds there is simple irony that in Just the title of A Good Man Is Hard To Find, where a nice family vacation turns Into a disastrous murder. When I first began reading, I never thought that the story would have such an ending. The mood of the story went from normal to sad fairly quickly. There was an example of […]

John Tucker Dr. Larry Composition II 30 April 2010 The Struggle of Acceptance The short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” portrays forgiveness and change as a key factors leading to emotional turmoil resulting in the death of the grandmother. Both, forgiveness and change give reasoning for the murder and reasoning to prevent the murder. In both cases Jesus Christ shows His impact […]

Fiction Essay Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner said that a writer must “leave no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking with any story is ephemeral and doomed- love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. ” Flannery O’Connor uses these universal truths in her short story, A Good […]

The story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is an interesting story about a family traveling to Florida for a family trip. The story’s main characters are the grandmother, the mother and a baby, the father Bailey, and the two children June Star and John Wesley. This family is to embark on a trip that leads to a run in with other characters The […]

In the short story ” A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author, Flannery O’Connor uses the characters in the story to capture the reader’s attention. Most every person has had or has a ‘Grandmother’ in their life, a Bailey, and young children or grandchildren. As one reads the story, they can relate and empathize with the characters which makes it a bit easier […]

A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, brings a story in which she connects her experience as a victim of lupus erythematosus with her writings. The story begins with an ordinary family that embarks on a journey that becomes the last of their lives as the journey approaches to an end, as well as their […]

The story is about a family from Georgia who is on a trip to Tennessee.  In the midst of the journey, the grandmother mentions an old plantation which her grandchildren wanted to see.  Despite Bailey’s hesitation, the family proceeds based on the grandmother’s instructions. However, on their way to the said plantation, the grandmother suddenly remembers that the plantation she was talking about was in […]

An Assessment of the Grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor The grandmother who remains unnamed all throughout in the story is the protagonist and the central character of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is hard to Find, a tragic story of a family who decided to go on vacation but got killed randomly on the road by a criminal […]