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A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Flannery O'Connor's personal views on the justification of religion and the resulting world or corruption and depravity are apparent in her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find". She analyzes the basic plight of human existence and its conflict with religious conviction. The first two-thirds of the narrative set the stage for the grandmother, representing traditional Christian beliefs, to collide with The Misfit, representing modern scientific beliefs. The core of symbolism and the magnet for interpretation is at the end, the conversation between the grandmother and The Misfit. The conversation represents the examination of the clash between animal and metaphysical human nature and the Misfit is the literary depiction of the outcome of that clash.
The grandmother is based on conventional Southern women. She dresses in her Sunday best so that no one
would be mistaken as to her status as a lady, an issue at the heart of every true Southern woman. She related stories of old......


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