A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

Perspectives of Life and Religion In O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” she displays how life and religion plays a huge role when the Grandmother crosses path with the Misfit. Although the Grandmother and the Misfit are the main characters, they did not cross paths until the tragic car accident. This story is intriguing because it beginned as a constant battle over where the family should take their trip rather it was Tennessee or Florida. The Grandmother had her mind made up on traveling to Tennessee, but her son, Bailey was not convinced. O’Connor wrote more than a story based on a family trip that took a wrong turn for destruction, but it was her perspective on cultural, religion, and the fundamentals of life. The cultural aspects of the Grandmother was a polite, respectable, and religious woman that believed in traditional values. On the other hand, her son, Bailey did not seem to share those same attributes especially when it came to his wife and kids. Bailey’s kids, June Star and John Wesley were very disrespectful and did not like authority. The Grandmother stated, “[i]n my time children were more respectful of …. their
Once the Grandmother and her family was in the tragic accident, it was as if it was fate for her and the Misfit to cross path. The Misfit talked to the Grandmother about religion and how he did come from a good family, but he also spoke of his thoughts of God such as, “Jesus thown everything off balance” (O’Connor 436). The Misfit was speaking of the fact that if God have not let the dead rise maybe he and the Grandmother would have not crossed paths and maybe he would not be blames for his daddy’s death. On the other hand, O’Connor constantly revealed that her characters are not the only ones that has come across a serial killer that talked about God, but the fact that is life and no one knows how it will play out but