Symbolism In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“Symbolism and Religion in ‘A good Man is Hard to Find ’’ In O'Connor's book "A good Man is Hard to Find," she employs the use of different stylistic features like symbolism and religion in various instances. The story is about a family that plans to go on a vacation but meets their tragic death before destination. Most of the characters are named symbolically to signify certain themes of the story. The family, while on the way to Florida, picks a dirt road which in my view is symbolic of the problems that the family was just about to experience on the way. It is the stretch that they meet the "inevitable" accident which also exposes them to a criminal psychopath Misfit" (O'Connor 219). Grandmother is used to symbolizing old times and controversy as is portrayed by the very character who keeps reminiscing her old times and the way things
According to her, a lady was a symbol of "good" thus proving that the grandmother was not good despite her claiming so because for her to be good, she had to wear a cap and a glove to hide her evil. Most of the bad things happening to this family in some way trace their origin to the grandmother from the trouble with kids and eventually the accident and the Misfit whom she claimed she recognized leading to their death. Religion is also used in the book especially from the point when the accident occurred, and Misfit remained with a grandmother who was also the first to introduce the religion story page (O'Connor 106). For example, the grandmother talks a lot about Misfit being a good person to the extent that she even asks him to pray, encouraging him by telling him that Jesus would help him. Misfit also reveals his religious beliefs in page 106 revealing that he was a gospel singer (106). This is followed with a monolog by Misfit about Jesus even suggesting that Jesus, through everything, off balance by resurrecting