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A Good Man is Hard to Find4
Title: A Good Man is Hard to Find4
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1359 | Pages: 5.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Good Man is Hard to Find4
“The Grandmother’s Grace”
Analyzation of “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
The story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” written by Flannery O’Connor, tells the
metaphorical tale of a family’s fatal confrontation with The Misfit, an escaped serial killer. The
incidents and characters throughout the story are aspects of a plot intending to symbolize the
spiritual grace passed from one human to another, without regard for kindness or evil. The
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…showed last 75 words of 1359 total…cry that her “head cleared” (415) and she
“reached out” (415) to someone else, even the vilest human being she had ever known who had
just destroyed everything she loved, her family. The Misfit says, "She’d of been a good woman if
there’d been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" (416). The line is
uncomfortably funny, but also moving because the theme is redemption and grace in the face of
unbearable tragedy.
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