In A Good Man is Hard to Find, the story begins with the characters planning a family trip to Florida. However, the unnamed Grandmother, the matriarch, disagrees with the rest of the family as she would instead go to Tennessee. The Grandmother mentions a dangerous individual, the Misfit, to make her case against going to…
In her short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor’s seems to portray a feeling that society as she saw it was drastically changing for the worse. O’Connor’s obvious displeasure with society at the time is most likely a result of her Catholic religion and her very conservative upbringing in the ‘old…
Flannery O’Connor’s background influenced her to write the short story “Revelation.” One important influence on the story is her Southern upbringing. During her lifetime, Southerners were very prejudiced towards people of other races and lifestyles. They believed that people who were less fortunate were inferior to them; therefore, people were labeled as different things and…