Rejection Of Good
Rejection of Good
Flannery O'Connor considered herself a devout Catholic, and her religious values are evident in all of her writings. She tends to challenge her readers on religious and ethical issues with her work. The end of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" leaves the reader with many unanswered questions like ‘what is good?' and other things of this nature. It is generally accepted that religion and being good go hand in hand, but as evident in Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" this is not true at all. The two main characters, the grandmother and the Misfit, are O'Connor's tools that she uses to show the reader how portraying oneself as being good is not the same as actually living the lifestyle needed to be a good person. O'Connor also uses foreshadowing to give hints as to what will happen to the family in the later part of the story. She uses foreshadowing to advance the story so that she can apply the foreshadowing to being good in some form or fashion.......
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