A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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plantation house. The restaurant is a "broken-down place"- "a long dark room" with a tiny place to dance. At one time Red Sammy found pleasure from the restaurant but now he is afraid to leave the door unlatched. He has given in to the "meanness" of the world. In contrast to the horrible Tower is the grandmother's peaceful memories of the plantation house that is filled with wonderful treasures. However, the family never reach this house because this house does not even exist on the this dirt road or even in the same state. Because of the grandmother's pride she cannot admit that she has made a mistake. "'It's not much farther,' the grandmother said and just
as she said it, a horrible thought came to her. The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up...." (144). The grandmother's pride and self-centered wish to see the house causes the Misfit to discover and murder the family. Both houses are, in effect, ruins of ...

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characters when they are being presented to an audience as comical figures and an elaborate joke. If more attention is paid to the story's self-conscious technique, then the reader can adjust their sympathies in a way that would coincide with the story's style.

The first words uttered in the first pages of "A good man is hard to find" are directed to the reader almost as much as they are directed to Bailey: "Now look here, ...see here, read this." (137). The reader themselves are rustling the pages of the story almost simultaneously as the grandmother is shaking the newspaper at Bailey. Cleverly, O'Connor has made her reader self-conscious of her printed medium and undoubtedly ...

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