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A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Society's Change
In her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Flannery O'Connor seems to portray a feeling that society as she saw it was drastically changing for the worse. O'Connor obvious displeasure with society at the time the story was written is most likely her religious and conservative upbringing in the "old south." O'Connor shows her point of view through an old woman named the grandmother. She uses the grandmother to depict Evidence of society's demise is woven into the story, and presented through an interesting generational gap between the old and the new (the grandmother and her family). O'Connor use of irony throughout the story is a clear representation of the way in which she portrays the events yet to come.
The grandmother is by far the most outstanding of O'Connor characters. Although all the characters contribute to the theme of the story the grandmother contributes the most because through her O'Connor's views and opinions about society are......


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