Wednesday, 13 April 2011

In "A Good Man is Hard to Find", are any of O'Connor's characters sympathetic?

Most of the
characters in 's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" can be divided into two
groups: those who are murdered and those who are not murderers. 

O'Connor's
story involves a family vacation in which a father, mother, their children, and their
grandmother take a car trip through the southern part of the United States (O'Connor herself was
from Georgia). A suggested detour by the Grandmother leads to the family car crashing off the
road. Unfortunately, the first people on the scene are three outlaws, whose ringleader is
known...

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