A Good Man is Hard To Find
Despite the relatively limited volume of Flannery O’Connor’s published fiction, she has begun to be regarded as on of the most significant figures in the American literary canon in the 34 years since her death. Throughout her three novels and two volumes of short stories, O’Connor addresses a number of problematic issues and ideas, mostly through a conceptual framework firmly grounded in her devout Catholic faith. An overarching theme in O’Connor’s fiction is the indictment of the paucity of ethics extant in modern society. Further, the characters in her stories are often exposed to shocking violence as a means of achieving an ultimately meaningful moment of grace (Martin 15). An examination of the use of symbolism, religious motifs, and characterization in O’Connor’s short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" reveals her emphasis on both of these recurrent themes.Because many of O’Connor’s stories are didactic in nature and similar in function to parables or fables, she relies heavily on the use of symbolism in order to invest even the minutest elements of her fiction with thematic significance. In "A Good M
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Approximate Word count = 771
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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