A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O´Connor

Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Flannery o 'Connor. Known as the southern United States, the second after Faulkner writer. "A good man is hard to find" the religious fable story, the story is very simple, an elderly woman with her son a family trip to Florida, due to the old woman wanted to see a supposed to be on the way but somehow thought in Tennessee plantation in Georgia, and the way for the old woman with a bad idea to turn over a car, then the escaped from prison that inappropriate happens by men, finally killed all of them a six people, including the baby.

The old lady with inappropriate dialogue between became the highlight of the novel, is also an important basis, understand the novel's theme and characters down we look at the two characters with symbolism.

First is inappropriate. We first analyze and he said to the old lady a paragraph: "' who also have no what I want, 'he said,' the workhouse, director of the doctor said that my guilt is killed father, but I know it was nonsense. My father is a death when influenza in 1919, has nothing to do with me. In the cemetery of buried him in the mount Hopewell Baptist church, you don't believe can see for yourself. '" Untimely born in a Catholic family he want is not material things. From our chief physician of the charges against him, and he argue, he is really insane. And he said: "I found out that crime is not a big deal.... because sooner or later you will forget what you're done." From this we know that he did to his father, but he "forgot". When he let the two accomplices had killed the old lady's son and grandson male after say again, only Jesus can drive a man back to life, but he shouldn't do that. "I'm not present, so dare not say he didn't, I w...

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..., you are also one of my children, one of my own son!" Has god in mercy as a person who commits a crime. Her clever use of god, gave her instead of desperation, if she was a bit stupid, as inappropriate people is humorously said, "if the rest of my life every minute someone endless shoot at her, she will be a good woman". An abandoned god's people in front of the person a abandoned by god dressed as god, only.

O 'Connor life believe in god, the biggest worry is the time in her life, she believed that god would give her enough time not short for 39 years, she is a devout. In fact everyone has his or her own god in the heart, but god can give us what? God knows.

Reference

[1] Chang Yao letter "A Brief History of American Literature" [M] Tianjin: Nankai University Press, 1999.

[2] Sun Lili a good man is hard to find a sinner in the world [J], Foreign Literature