A Bad Man is Easy to Find

A Bad Man is Easy to Find Flannery O'Connor is known for her brilliant use of irony in her stories. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is one of her superb literary works in which she proves her point by ending her stories in a dramatic, lucrative way. O'Connor's motive in writing this story is pretty clear in the title, but she also uses a couple of interesting characters to express her purpose. The …

…the people that family happened to break down near was a bad guy. This may sound like an obvious statement, but the obvious ironic event is that they broke down near the Misfit. The family was out in the middle of nowhere and they had an accident near a bad guy, not a good guy, therefore the title could be read another way to prove Flannery O'Connor's point, "A Bad Man is Easy to Find".