Flannery OConner

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doctor’s office. She too seems like she is the one who is in command of the conversation. The same holds true for the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find. She continues a conversation with a man that is has murdered her family and threatening to murder her.
Through the use of dialog these three women also control the man in each of their stories. Julian’s mother tries to control her son’s life. Her son still lives at home and put him through school. Mrs. Turpin’s husband is held silent for just about the entire story.
She orders him around and tells him to sit down. The grandmother too controls her son when she convinces him to go down the dirt path to see the house with the secret panel. She tells him “It would be very educational.”(p.356)
One thread that binds all three women is that they are very concerned about their social standing in life. Julian’s mother always dresses in her nice dresses and wears white gloves with her fancy hats. She wants to make everyone believe ...

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