Irony And Foreshadowing In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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Irony and Foreshadowing It is sometimes problematic for readers to view O’Connor as a religious writer since none of her characters seem “good.” Her narratives and short stories seem to bring readers to the instant where a “bad” character is ready to transform, but the reader never sees the results. O’Connor considered herself a writer with “Christian concerns” and showed readers through her stories and her vision of a world where what is routinely thought of as improvement is actually the opposite. She proves humankind’s need for the cryptic grace of God, a gift that is offered swiftly in normal settings. Violence is a means to awaken characters to their own moral insufficiency, to take away their qualities so that there is nothing left but a humiliated personality ready to accept redemption. …show more content…

The story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find demonstrates her loftier use of symbolism. Some of her irony was even placed in names of cities “Outside of Toombsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation…” (O’Connor 440). Descriptions of setting in O’Connor’s stories are nearly always symbolic as well. “They passed a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island” (O’Connor 438). These graves are foreshadowing and symbolic for the emanate death of the five or six family members. The titles of the stories that Flannery O’Connor write are nearly always ironic, as are the names of many characters and settings. The title A Good Man Is Hard to Find ironically foreshadows the question of whether or not there is truly good men in the

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