A Good Man Is Hard To Find Literary Analysis

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In the short story,”A Good Man is Hard to Find”, written by Mary Flannery O’Connor in 1955, it means to be a “good” man as “one who is perfectly upright” (Kirszner, 2017). The grandmother in the story, who seems to keep a monotone type of voice while talking anyone, except when dealing with a character named Misfit. The grandmother referred to Red Sammy as a “good” man as he had a belief in “two fellers that came in here last week” (O’Connor,1955),as he was referring to his gas station. Red Sammy stated out loud “Now why did I do that”(O’Connor,1955)? She also believed that Red Sammie was a good man as she compared his good deed of trusting the two fellas, as “People are certainly not nice like they used to be”(O’Connor,1955). Red Sammy stated

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