We’ve all probably heard of the saying ‘everybody makes mistakes.’ While we might sometimes find it reassuring in certain situations, it’s never acceptable with murder. Of course, Flannery O’Connor isn’t claiming that everyone’s guilty of homicide; but her short story ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ makes it clear that everybody’s guilty of something. This evil tale of a pretentious and self absorbed grandmother’s vacation with her family is steeped in connections to Christian faith, such as Flannery’s thematic emphasis that “All have sinned.” From the beginning, she didn’t want to go to Florida and tries to convince her son Bailey that they should go to Tennessee instead, using the excuse that there is an escaped convict on the loose. Not only
