A short story that many individuals may or may not know well was first published in 1953 after the writer, Flannery O’Connor made a permanent move to Andalusia to her mother’s diary farm. The story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" was started on the dairy farm that illustrates many of the techniques and themes which were to characterize the typical story. Since O’Connor was limited by her illness to short and infrequent trips away from the farm, O'Connor learned to draw upon the resources at hand for the subject matter of her stories throughout situations that were going on at home, books she had read, and newspapers articles that were related to crime, however, the basic of O’Connors knowledge among her story was to make it so intense was how the story came about, the grandmothers attitude, and the criminal that was on the loose. An important part of the story was the Misfit, the pathological killer who murders the grandmother’s entire family in the story, was basically fabricated from a newspaper article of two criminals who had terrorized the Atlanta area in the early 1950s, it was also based off of books as well to make the story more intense.
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Red Sammy Butts, was mainly based on a local "good boy" who had made good profit within his business, and lived a very traditional life than others in the story, however, there were more characters in the story such as Bailey, John Wesley, and June Star. O'Connor's treatment of each characters in the story reinforces a view of men as a fallen creature that ended up being killed. Technically, the story describes the destruction of a normal family by three escaped convicts. In addition, the unnamed grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” considers herself morally superior to others. The justification of her being a “lady,” she frequently passes judgment on others as if she is way better. She claims that her own conscience is a guiding force within her life, especially when she told Bailey that her conscience would not allow her to take the children in the same direction as the Misfit. In the grandmother’s view, it was a terrible idea. Sadly, the grandmother never turns her critical eye on herself to inspect her own hypocrisy, dishonesty, and selfishness. The grandmother criticizes the children’s mother for not traveling to a place that would allow the children to be all-embracing, and very rudely, she compares the mother’s face to a cabbage. The grandmother complains to John Wesley for not having more respect, but how dare she? How could she complain about respect when she gives none herself? However, the grandmother never misses an opportunity to judge the lack of goodness in people in the world around her, but during her “traditional style,” she proudly wears her selected dress and hat, certain to let everyone knows that being a lady is the most important virtue of all, one that she takes pride in the most. In all honesty, when the Misfit, a convicted felon murders the family, the grandmother never once begged him to spare her children or grandchildren. However, she pleads for her own life to be taken because she cannot imagine the Misfit wanting
Red Sammy Butts, was mainly based on a local "good boy" who had made good profit within his business, and lived a very traditional life than others in the story, however, there were more characters in the story such as Bailey, John Wesley, and June Star. O'Connor's treatment of each characters in the story reinforces a view of men as a fallen creature that ended up being killed. Technically, the story describes the destruction of a normal family by three escaped convicts. In addition, the unnamed grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” considers herself morally superior to others. The justification of her being a “lady,” she frequently passes judgment on others as if she is way better. She claims that her own conscience is a guiding force within her life, especially when she told Bailey that her conscience would not allow her to take the children in the same direction as the Misfit. In the grandmother’s view, it was a terrible idea. Sadly, the grandmother never turns her critical eye on herself to inspect her own hypocrisy, dishonesty, and selfishness. The grandmother criticizes the children’s mother for not traveling to a place that would allow the children to be all-embracing, and very rudely, she compares the mother’s face to a cabbage. The grandmother complains to John Wesley for not having more respect, but how dare she? How could she complain about respect when she gives none herself? However, the grandmother never misses an opportunity to judge the lack of goodness in people in the world around her, but during her “traditional style,” she proudly wears her selected dress and hat, certain to let everyone knows that being a lady is the most important virtue of all, one that she takes pride in the most. In all honesty, when the Misfit, a convicted felon murders the family, the grandmother never once begged him to spare her children or grandchildren. However, she pleads for her own life to be taken because she cannot imagine the Misfit wanting