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Submitted by gsmith8098 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," displays characters that avoid their personal weaknesses. Particularly, O'Connor shows these weaknesses in Bailey. Through different relationships, Bailey illustrates his passiveness and lack of courage to confront people. Bailey's lack of courageousness exhibits his weakness through interaction between his children, mother, and The Misfit.
The interaction between Bailey and his two children, John Wesley and June Star, portrays one of his weaknesses. Both of the children do not have respect for anyone, especially for their father. Evidence of this weakness is shown one afternoon while driving in the car. The children's grandmother told them about a house with "six white columns across the front and that there was an avenue of oaks leading up to it" (270). The grandmother also told the children about a secret panel inside the house. John Wesley and June Star both start to irritate Bailey about going to this mysterious house. Bailey immediately tells the children no, and they began to yell and scream. After listening to June Star whine and John Wesley "kicked the back of the seat so hard that his father could
feel the blows in his kidneys," Bailey gives into his weakness (271). By letting the children be disrespectful and get their way, Bailey illustrates this weakness on account of ineffective parenting skills. These unsuccessful skills establish the personal weakness of Bailey and his children's relationship.
Another relationship displaying Bailey's weakness is with his mother. Bailey's mother seems to still treat him as a child. The mother exhibits this by telling Bailey how he should make decisions. One decision the mother wants Bailey to change is the location for a family vacation. The mother reads the newspaper and finds an article about The Misfit. While reading the article, she instantly believes that they will encounter The Misfit, a criminal, if...
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