Summary Of O 'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find'

In A Good Man is Hard to Find, O’Connor had challenged her audience in this whimsical tale of light humor and tragedy. What can be taken from this work is that she likes to go against the grain; deep into the underlying forces of morality. That is what has made her story so compelling and profound. This style of writing can inhibit many perspectives from her stories as to what to make of it. Many people have their own views on her hidden themes, symbols, and motifs. After reading some assessments from professional critics, they have certainly shed some light on the subject. What was most profound to me after reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find” was how O’Connor challenged the definition of “good”. Brinkmeyer’s analysis of how difficult it is for Christians to sympathize with her writing attacks this notion. He points out the Christian readers’ needs when it comes to ideal themes. “Ideal Christianity doesn’t exist, because anything the human touches, even Christian truth, he deforms slightly in his own image” (Brinkmeyer 167). O’Connor explains that the modern reader’s “sense of evil” is diluted, or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration (Brinkmeyer 168).
His analysis was meticulously calculated as he estimates the physical distance from the family’s departure to their bitter end. He also points out many foreshadowing symbols. The scene in which the grandmother points out a graveyard with five or six graves fenced off in the middle of a large cornfield. The misspelling of the word, “Toombsboro.” His deepest finding theorizes a biblical reference of the only fictitious town named “Timothy.” It certainly is a deviated theory but carries very reasonable merit to it as O’Connor is widely known for her religious