A Good Man Is Hard To Find Foreshadowing Analysis
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is filled with many key literacy elements such as point of view, structure, setting, foreshadowing, and themes. This story is told in an omniscient point of view and part objective. O'Connor allows the story to develop by itself without getting fully into the minds of one of the characters but there is a narrator. The dialogue and actions of the characters are what make up the story. I think by telling this story through these points of views readers get a better feeling of the mood in the story. There are a lot of character's reactions that would be missed if O'Connor just allowed the readers to get into the mind of only one character. O'Connor did even mention
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One of the first foreshadows is when the grandmother didn't want to leave the cat alone in the house. She said the cat would miss her to much. This foreshadows to the death of the grandmother. One of the other foreshadowing's to the death of the grandmother is when the grandmother points out the graveyard that had five or six graves fenced in. Not only do the graves symbolizes death, the amount of graves there are also match the amount of family members in the car that ended up dying. Another foreshadowing to the grandmothers death is how and why she is so dressed up for the trip. Unlike the mother of the kids the grandmother was dressed in her Sundays best. The grandmother says that she is dressed nicely "in case of an accident anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know she was a lady" (OConnor 309). Another thing that I think is significant in the story is the type car the Misfit drove up to the family in. It was described as "a big black battered hearse-like automobile" (OConnor 314). After reading the outcome of the story you recognize how the car relates. This car represents the coming of their death. O'Connor also hints the upcoming deaths by the name of the town the family was in when the Grandma happened to recall this old memory of the house. The name of the town was Toombsboro and when analyzed, the word "tomb" pulled out of the town's name, foreshadows how the family will meet their
One of the first foreshadows is when the grandmother didn't want to leave the cat alone in the house. She said the cat would miss her to much. This foreshadows to the death of the grandmother. One of the other foreshadowing's to the death of the grandmother is when the grandmother points out the graveyard that had five or six graves fenced in. Not only do the graves symbolizes death, the amount of graves there are also match the amount of family members in the car that ended up dying. Another foreshadowing to the grandmothers death is how and why she is so dressed up for the trip. Unlike the mother of the kids the grandmother was dressed in her Sundays best. The grandmother says that she is dressed nicely "in case of an accident anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know she was a lady" (OConnor 309). Another thing that I think is significant in the story is the type car the Misfit drove up to the family in. It was described as "a big black battered hearse-like automobile" (OConnor 314). After reading the outcome of the story you recognize how the car relates. This car represents the coming of their death. O'Connor also hints the upcoming deaths by the name of the town the family was in when the Grandma happened to recall this old memory of the house. The name of the town was Toombsboro and when analyzed, the word "tomb" pulled out of the town's name, foreshadows how the family will meet their