Flannery O'connor Character Comparison
Tanner Varner
College Writing I
Character Comparison
The grandmother and The Misfit of Flannery O' Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are backward, opposite images of each other. However, the grandmother does have similarities with the character, Ruby Turpin in O'Connor's short story, "Revelation".
The grandmother is portrayed as being a selfish self-involved woman who wants her way, a person with little memory, just a basic old woman living with her only son. The Misfit on the other hand is a man who feels he has done no wrong, but has just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in the end comes too close to the truth, which scares him.
From the beginning, the author introduces the grandmother and right off you see how she wishes they could take a trip to where she used to live, she tries every chance she gets to change the plans for the trip with her only son. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward......
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