Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

They say that idols focusing argon inscrutable, and this saying characterizes the concept of Flannery OConnors story A dandy Man is Hard to Find . The composing of living an empty tonespan and the contingency of revelation for everybody is the main idea of the author. by dint of telling a simple, more or lesstimes point comical story ab proscribed greenness hoi polloi, their stereotypes and narrow-mindedness she discloses the lack of spiritualism in human vitality. This makes up the theme, which the author int lay off to raise.Speaking about the setting, it is great to watch that it by genre it can be refer cerise to the so-called thorough removede story, which presupposes travel from unmatched place to another on the special take aim. yet there is al itinerarys a hidden message behind, which constitutes the figurative level of the narration. We know perfectly that a driveway is a popular metaphor of life and naturally a per password who is despicable along th is road undergoes a miscellanea of mental and spiritual change. The same is neat about Flannery OConnors establish of writing. The journey is from Georgia to Florida with a downplay of beautiful scenery Stone kettle of fish the blue granite that in nigh places came up to both sides of the highway the brilliant red clay banks slightly streaked with over-embellished and the various crops that made rows of green lace-work on the ground.The trees were ripe of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. A family of the grandmother, her son Bailey with his wife and children make a send by car a graceful nature, paying no attention at it at all. The moreover soulfulness who is interest is the elderly dame all when for some specific reasons nostalgia about the things as they utilise to be and because travel can be educational for kids. Is it the road to heaven or to hell? I will yield to answer this question further on.The plot, which forms the international texture of the story seems to be a case of fatal misfortune. The family goes travelling, get into a road accident in a remote bea and are caught by a band of serial sea wolf the Misfit who run throughs the whole family. Therefore, the external movement is from life to death. Internally, however, the direction is the opposite one, from death to life. This price reduction is embodied first of all in the character of the Grandmother, who has no name in the story. This fact of namelessness proves her to be a typical product of the contemporary society, divest of any significant individuality.She is selfish, manipulative and full of herself as we meet her first. She is devoted to the old believing that People are sure as scoreing not nice like they apply to be, the phrase which is not only her life credo tho as sanitary as reflects her attitude to herself.She considers herself to be good and undecomposed and does not notice that her values are false. Meeting with the Misfit , odouring herself at the rim of death causes dramatic change inwardly the old woman. There is an irony in the fat that revelation to her is brought in such(prenominal) an unconventional way with a phantasmal talk with serial killer. But at the same time this is do by the author deliberately to symbolise some higher wisdom.The Misfit is a suspect character, his name symbolizing all peoples loneliness and loss and emptiness. They assumet belong to the founding god created for them, they mis-fit. And the problem is not like the Grandmother considered that people are not as nice as they used to be. The world we live in is our own reflection. As a matter of fact, the killer and the equal elderly woman who dresses up neatly because she wants to look like a lady in case of being killed in an accident, are not so far away from each other as they might seem to be.They were both brought up in the atmosphere devoid of spiritism and both of them ache no God in their soul. The dif ference is that the Misfit recognizes the fact but the Grandmother doesnt. She hides herself behind the conventional stereotypes of religion, which lies in habitual going to the church, requesting on a regular basis, stealing zero point from the levelheaded citizens and so on.In a difficult situation she first tries to appeal to the religious feelings of the killer but she fails because she is herself being superficial in her credence. Thats why when she tries to pray to deliverer, asking for help, her words come out differently Finally she found herself saying, Jesus. Jesus, meaning, Jesus will help you, but the way she was saying it, it sounded as if she might be cursing. At this point she existingizes that her assurance was fake and at this very s a new opportunity is addicted to her.Surprisingly, it is the Misfit who opened her eyes and her soul. He himself recognizes he doesnt believe in God, the only thing which is definite is death. Thats why he thinks that Jesus br oke chemical equilibrium when he raised the death. There would have been nothing certain remaining in the world, even death, if it were professedly. The misfit expresses an idea, which is very pregnant without spirituality one might as well enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can &8212 by killing somebody or ardent down his house or doing some other meanness to him. He essence that if you are not willing to deport Gods be intimate, the sin body the same whether you are doing it small crimes or in big ones.The lives of the Misfit and the Grandmother were evenly empty because they rejected salvation, which is possible through love. These seconds are so vitally great and enlightening for the woman that her soul gets on the whole transformed. She is suddenly filled with that divine love. feel at the criminal who has killed her family and is going to kill herself, she exclaims Why, youre one of my babies She realizes that her son and her grandchildren are so empty because she didnt give them the love she had to, thats why she realizes that the Misfit is her child in this sense.At the end, when the Misfit kills the old lady, he makes an interest conclusion, which reveals the idea of the whole story She would of been a good woman, The Misfit said, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. The sentence raises an important issue is it necessary for a someone to be on the brink of life and death to realize what was wrong in his or her life? Do the true values reveal themselves from delusions only when you are about to die? Arent we likewise much involved in day-by-day repeating of events to stop and see the truth? plausibly we are just too scared to be nobody, to feel the emptiness? These important questions arise after reading the story.So, is it the road to heaven or to hell? Who knows. some(prenominal) people believe that a person who has no moral laws inside is surrender in what he does and feels no pen itence about he deeds. At the archetype of the Misfit we see that the truth is more composite than that. Probably he doesnt feel remorse, as he has no faith and no God to lean on but the problem is he feels nothing at all. His crimes were intended to be a kind of rebellion against God whom he never had in his life but it is a bitter rebellion. At the end of the story we find out that he feels no fun and no soak challenging God. There is no real pleasure in life, he says.