The Characters Of Flannery O Connor s A Good Man Is Hard

The Characters of Flannery O’Connor’s â€Å"A Good Man Is Hard to Find† The Grandmother and the Misfit are O’Connor’s major characters in â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find†. Even though there are other characters a part of this story, the unnamed grandmother and the Misfit are the round characters as well as the main focus of the story. We are introduced to both characters early on because it’s coming from the grandmother’s point of view and we also discover that The Misfit is an escaped murderer but, we do not come in contact with The Misfit until later on. We learn that the grandmother is old fashioned, religious, selfish and a pushy woman in which any case if an accident happens, â€Å"anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was lady† (O’Connor 485) and thinks that she is better than everyone else until she has a religious epiphany towards the end of the story. However, we don’t c ome in contact with the Misfit until Bailey’s family gets in an accident and the Grandmother recognizes the infamous murderer and because the Grandmother recognizes him the Misfit tells them â€Å"but it would been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t reckernized me† ( 490) , giving the Misfit no other choice but to kill them all. The Misfit is accompanied by two other men and these two men take as well as kill the other family members, just leaving the grandmother and the Misfit alone before the grandmother is shot three times. Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, uses O’Connor’s story toShow MoreRelatedFlannery OConner and the use of grotesque character in Good country people and a good man is hard to find1226 Words   |  5 Pageswriting (Holman 61). Almost all of O Connor s short stories usually end in horrendous, freak fatalities or, at the very least, a character s emotional devastation. People have categorized O Connor s work as Southern Gothic (Walters 30). 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