A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery OConnor Character...

Justice Jackson Anam K. Govardhan ENG 106W-01 November 27, 2017 Downfall of Them All Many literary authors use different characters to represent the way people in a given period acted or behaved towards each other. An author such as Flannery O’Connor has used various characters in her short stories for various reasons. However, one factor evident in the texts is that she has portrayed them in the most negative way. Therefore, this paper is an analysis of how O’Connor’s stories A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and Everything That Rises Must Converge portray the downfall of major characters in them. A Good Man Is Hard to Find In the book, A Good Man is Hard to Find, O’Connor has shown the downfalls of her major†¦show more content†¦He fails to compose himself after his cat jumps on his shoulder. Instead he panics and wrecks the car leading them to the misfit. June Star is the young girl who is also Bailey’s daughter. She has the unusual character of being the obnoxious one, who loudly speaks her mind, and makes cruel observations about those living with her. Unlike the normal appeal of little girls being sweet, honest and adorable, June Star is he exact opposite of this. For example, she does not like Bobby Lee, one of the escaped criminals, and she even retorts that Lee looks like a pig. The little girl also has a terrorising character and ends up in many troubles with the family, hence appearing as a mean and disrespectful little girl to the readers and showing her downfall. Red Sammy Butts and his wife are other characters that the author has portrayed poorly. Sammy Butts is the owner of the â€Å"Red Tower† restaurant. One of the main issues is that he and his wife are more concerned with a material lifestyle, and are constantly thinking about several ways to make more money. Since they are already rich, one would expect them to live a free and settled life. However, it is clear that they are constantly worried. For example, Sammy regrets having allowed two men charge gas. At the same time, his wife worries that misfit will attack their restaurant if he hears that there is money. The same materialistic mind is also evident with the grandmother and her son. As wellShow MoreRelatedThe Moral Structure Of Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard To Find1148 Words   |  5 PagesWorks Cited Bonney, William. The Moral Structure of Flannery OConnors a Good Man Is . Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 27, no. 3, Summer90, p. 347. EBSCOhost, pulaskitech.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=afhAN=9705041482site=ehost-livescope=site. The ten stories in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find circumscribe a moral and thematic center (Bonney). William Booney’s article was written as if the grandmother is actually grasping the savingRead MoreThe Lame Shall Enter First 32248 Words   |  9 Pagesgrotesque, for the perverse, and for the unacceptable†¦. To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures. —Flannery O’Connor, â€Å"The Fiction Writer and His Country†1 Long before the likes of Raymond Carver, George Saunders and Lydia Davis, Flannery O’Connor was writing biting, grotesque gothic tales, scattered with strong religious and moral overtones. Her symbolic stories contrasted characters in existential extremes in simmering situations. In O’Connor’sRead MoreLiterary Analysis â€Å"Setting† – a Good Man Is Hard to Find2158 Words   |  9 PagesChad Funk Professor Sharon Thiese The Short Story May 28th, 2012 Literary Analysis â€Å"Setting† – A Good Man is Hard to Find In the story â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find† by Flannery O’Connor starts out by giving a look at a dysfunctional family on a vacation, but ultimately, gives insight into ourselves as well as the nature of good and evil, how they can clash, and how they can co-exist, even in the same person. The setting, which plays a critical role in this short story because the grandmother shows