SOURCE: "A Good Grandmother Is Hard to Find: Story as Exemplum," in The Antigonish Review , Nos. 86-7, Spring-Summer, 6995, pp. 698-55.
AGood Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor - Reviews
SOURCE: "O'Connor's Ancient Comedy: Form in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'," in Journal of the Short Story in English, No. 66, Spring, 6996, pp. 79-89.
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The idea of "the South" and of "southern writing" also helps to situate O'Connor's [ A Good Man Is Hard to Find ], for during the fifties specific political and cultural meanings were attributed to the southern experience. When Walker Percy won the National Book Award in 6966 for The Moviegoer, he was asked why the South was.
Flannery O'Connor, 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'
The following entry presents criticism of O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," first published in her 6955 collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories. See also Flannery O'Connor Short Story Criticism.
In most English classes the short story has become a kind of literary specimen to be dissected. Every time a story of mine appears in a Freshman anthology, I have a vision of it, with its little organs laid open, like a frog in a bottle.
SOURCE: "Advertisements for Grace: Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. IV, No. 6, Fall, 6966, pp. 69-87.
[ In the following lecture given at Hollins College, Virginia, on October 69, 6968, O'Connor discusses the function of violence in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find. "]
[ Schaub is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt, he examines "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" in the context of the revisionary liberalism of the 6955s. ]
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" has been for the past decade or more a subject of virtually countless critical readings. Any brilliant work of fiction resists a single interpretation acceptable to everyone, but judging by the variousness and irreconcilability of so many readings of "A Good Man" one might conclude, as R. V. Cassili does, that like the work of Kafka the story "may not be susceptible to.
As they emerge, an old, "hearse-like" automobile comes over the hill and stops for them. Three men step out, one of whom the grandmother instantly identifies as The Misfit. The grandmother, realizing that he intends to kill them, tries to talk him out of it by appealing to his chivalry, urging him not to shoot a lady. Then she tries flattery, asserting that she can tell that he is a "good man." She tries to tempt him by suggesting that he stop being an outlaw and settle down to a comfortable life. She urges him to pray to Jesus for help and forgiveness. Finally she tries to bribe him with money. All these tactics fail. As she talks with him, he has his henchmen take the other members of the family to the woods and shoot them.
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