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"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

Introduction
A good man is hard to find ostensibly O'Connor's most acclaimed short story. A good
man is hard to find is a convincing story of a disaster that uses amusingness and incongruity to
draw the reader attention. At the focal point of the story is an anonymous old lady referred to in
the story as the grandma whose family is traveling to Florida, obviously as an excursion. As the
story starts, the grandma is attempting to exhort her child, Bailey, not to go because an indicted
killer referred to just as The Misfit has gotten away from jail and is presently free to move
around at will. The grandma fears that the family will keep running into him a trepidation which
strikes us, toward the start of the story, as a straightforward unreasonable stress of a busy minded
old lady. Her works join level authenticity with twisted circumstances. This paper will analyze
the characteristics of realism as depicted in a good man is hard to find" by Flannery O'Connor.
Structurally, the story is organized to fall into two segments, each with a clear tone. The
main portion of the story, up until the fender bender, is entertaining and light after the mishap;
nonetheless, readers understand that a disaster will happen. The tone turns dull; the topic gets to
be not kidding, and discourse turns out to be more weighted with incongruity and imagery.
The discussion about religion between the Grandmother and the Misfit is profoundly
philosophical distinct difference a glaring difference to the story's earlier unimportant trades
about former beaus or underprivileged youngsters(Harris 11). The story moves from being a

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picture of an unremarkable family to being an exchange on the subjects of death, forgiveness,
and injustice.
Moreover, O'Connor photography use highlights the spit-and-clean cleanliness of the
room, in which reflected light sparkles off the open floor; the clarity, symmetry, and spread of
control (O'Connor 13). Exceptionally on camera edges, most shots are long
In a work of fiction, tone can be recognized from a creator's decision of words and
activity. The tone of story combines humor, detachment incongruity, and reality. All through
O'Connor's stories, readers defy hilarious depictions or circumstances. One noteworthy typical
scene was the point when the storyteller portrays the kids' mom as having a face as broad as a
cabbage.
O 'Connor approaches the characters in her story with separation; at the end of the day,
her account voice does not help readers to end up thoughtful to her characters. She gives all of
them their issues and peculiarities with the goal that readers may judge them sincerely.
Correspondingly towards the end of the story, the tone turns more tragic as the misfit happens
upon the family (O'Connor 18).
O'Connor exhibits a circumstance in which ordinary people stand up to a power of
unadulterated insidiousness. The flat tone is set up when the characters can't prevail upon the
shrewd Misfit and must stand up to their mortality. Symbols, components in a work of fiction
that stand for something more significant or important, permit essayists to impart confounded
thoughts to readers in a story that gives off an impression of being straightforward.
O'Connor incorporates several symbols, for instance, skies and climate are constantly
typical to O'Connor, and she regularly uses such portrayals to uncover a character's perspective.
O'Connor utilizes a few sorts of incongruity to convey her message about the human condition.

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Toward the start of the story, the Grandmother says she would not take her children in any
direction with a criminal and cannot answer to her conscience if she did. However, this is what
she does when she diverts family to a forlorn roadside (O'Connor 21).
Conclusion
This essay has analyzed the characteristics of realism as depicted in a good man hard to
find by OConnor. OConnor has created cinematic images that have left an indelible mark on
the public imagination. In conclusion, the story succeeds in mixing comic drama and disaster
into a story which performs the relationship amongst reality and illusion, and which
demonstrates to us how rapidly murmur drum life can turn fatal dangerous.

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Works cited
Harris, Abbie C. "Jesus Thrown Everything Off Balance": Grace and Redemption in Flannery
O'Connor's" A Good Man is Hard to Find." Papers & Publications: Interdisciplinary
Journal of Undergraduate Research 3.1 (2014): 5.
O'Connor, Flannery. Flannery O'connor Complete Short Stories. HarperCollins, 2015.