A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor :: Essays on A Good Man Hard Find

In A Good Man is Hard to Find there are troopsy factors that can be the theme. The theme can be about a family as a whole that lacks love for the grandmother, or about a family that goes on a trip that wound up having an accident, which puts them at the wrong place at the wrong time. Both of these themes are obvious to any reader, but it does not quite seem to match this authors depth style way of writing. In a brief write up on Flannery OConnor, it says OConnor is a honourableist, she focuses an uncompromising moral essence on the violence and spiritual disorder of the world. By knowing this about the author OConnor we can look deeper into this story and find morals of 2 characters as the theme. The two characters are the Grandmother and the Misfit. Even though they are both different as night and day, they both have morals and stands by their morals no matter what.Even though the Grandmother shows to be a victim of rudeness, opposing statements, and dangerous situations, she s till stood by her morals disregardless of the situations. In the first paragraph, the grandmother is a victim of her grandchildren and at the end, she is a victim of a murderer who ironically is much nicer to her than her own grandchildren It is easily sight that the grandmothers morals involve making her environment as pleasant as her personality. At the beginning, you can see how the grandchildren are making hostile comments towards the grandmother about going on the trip with them. As she sits in the back seat with the hostile children instead of allowing them to ruin her mood, she decides to point out the provoke details of the scenery- stone mountains the blue granite, the brilliant red clay banks slightly streaked with purple. (pg 199). At the end while a victim of a murderer the grandmother still tried to make some good out of the situation. Aint a cloud in the sky he remarked. Yes it is a beautiful day said the grandmother. Listen you shouldnt call yourself misfit becaus e I know youre a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell. The grandmother said (pg 205). As stated earlier the grandmother was dedicated to keeping her moral of making her environment as pleasant as her personalityAlthough the Misfit is a murderer, he also has morals.