The Misfit

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    The Grandmother And The Misfit's A Good Man Is Hard To Find

    The balance of what is good and what is bad is a rather controversial topic in the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find". Most notably, the characteristics of both the Grandmother and the Misfit. The Misfit portrays an immoral personality and seems to be the evil in the story while the grandmother is the innocent lady seeking to be the good in this story. However, the religious virtues effect both personas and in itself draws the line around them mutually as sinners. Both characters have a particular

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    the family encounters the criminal "Misfit" and his cohorts, someone could argue that the grandmother is the real "misfit". How is the grandmother herself a misfit in the story? Should the grandmother be accounted for being a “misfit?” The Grandmother, Baily, his wife, and three kids wanted to go on a trip. Everyone but the grandmother wanted to go to Florida. They end up going to Tennessee and end up running into three bad people the leader is named the “Misfit”. He and his crew killed the entire

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    Flannery O Connor Literary Analysis

    self-righteousness grandmother in the family that had been surprised by this so called spiritual awareness by this unknown murder, which goes by the name of The Misfit, who had posses the action of committing a murderous spree

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    O'Connor uses strong imagery to foreshadow the people and the events in this story. There are three significant times she uses this technique. They are the description of the grandmother's dress, the death of the family, and the conversation between the Misfit and the grandmother. The grandmother did not want to go to Florida; she ironically dresses in her Sunday best. She was dressed very nicely with, "A navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed

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    Foreshadowing In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

    irony in the story when the family met the misfit and how the grandmother mis-read him. The author use foreshadowing in the beginning when they started to introduce people like the misfit and the cat. In the story the grandmother was always kept talking about a murderer on loose. Not just that, the cat played a huge role as Bailey her son, didn’t want to bring the cat. The grandmother first stated it when she

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Find, the main character is the grandmother’s character is displayed by her reactions and conversations with various characters throughout the story. Through her conversation with Bailey, her son, John Wesley and June Star, her grandchildren, and the Misfit killer. These conversations state the fact that she is from a traditional background and her attitude alternates to fit the surroundings that she is in. The grandmother loses her capacity to comprehend what state of mind that she wants to be in. Throughout

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    A Good Man Is Hard To Find Essay

    shown with the misfit as he shows his character. As any reader may allow themselves to believe that the grandmother figure of a story may be one of wisdom and maybe even one of a historical viewpoint. Though as we see in “A good

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    writers. She writes about issues within southern culture and has spiritual revelations. He compares O’Connor to The Misfit in the story. O’Connor is an artist, a Catholic and a Southern Woman. She uses her traits to build upon the characters of the story. They refer to the Grandmother as a flawed human being. Religion is very important. When the Grandmother reaches out to the Misfit with her religious comment she startles him and he kills her. Even as a villain after killing the Grandmother he is

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    A Good Man Is Hard to Find

    falsehoods to get what she wants. An example of verbal irony from grandmother is when she wants to go to Tennessee not Florida; so she makes sure to remind her family that “An enraged killer, The Misfit,” was preying upon people in Florida. Although, later in the story she is begging for her life, telling “The Misfit” that he seems like a good man, and one that was brought up with good intentions. Grandmother finally agrees to go on the trip, but she sneaks her cat, Pitty Sing along, because she knows

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    “A Good Man is Hard to Find“ "She connected and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang over as though a snake had chomped him and shot her three times through the midsection." Flannery O'bith "A Good Man is hard to Find" is the story of a family's travel disastrously finished by a killer and his pack. After a nosy Mother/mother-In-Law/grandmother tries to demand that the family head off to Tennessee rather than Florida, it was indeed through her own particular requirement that aroused

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