The Power Of Good And Evil in Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard to

The Power Of slap-up And Evil in Flannery OConnors A Good earth is Hard to Find Good and bad. Right and wrong. Guilty and Innocent. These are just a few of the many themes that surround everyones life. Everyone has their own opinion about certain issues, and they depend on their values, judgment, and beliefs to jaw them through their difficulties. Flannery OConnor was quoted as saying I see from the standpoint of saviorian orthodoxy. This means the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and that what I see in the world I see in relation to that (Contemporary Authors 402). These themes are present in OConnors story A Good Man is Hard to Find. The story is about a grandmother, a good woman who goes on vacation with her son and his family and suffers terribly due to her poor judgement, and beliefs, but learns the sure meaning of good in the face of something bad. The grandmother lives with her only son, Bailey, his wife and their children. The beginning of the s tory the grandmother is preparing to take a trip with her son?s family to Florida a place where she doesn?t even want to go. She wants the in all family to go to Tennessee to visit relatives (O?Connor 907).This is the first example of the egocentric ways that lead her to her demise. She wants to uproot the whole family ,only for her benefit. She also does not want to go to Florida because there is a escaped convict, an evil man, on the loose. She says, The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to those large number (O?Connor 907). Critic Richard Spivey explains the use of violence in O?Connor?s work O?Connor dealt with violent and grotesque people because man has in his... ...403. Drake, Robert. The Bleeding queasy Mad Shadow of Jesus in the Fiction of Flannery O?Connor. Comparative Literature Studies. University of Illinois. 1966. Vol. 3. 183-196. Gilbert, Muller, H. Nightmares and Visions. Flannery O?Connor and th e Catholic Grotesque. University Press. University of Georgia Press. 1977. 125. Hamblen, Abigail Ann. Flannery O?Connor?s Study of sinlessness and Evil. University Press. University of Mississippi. 1968. 295-297. McCown, Robert. Flannery O?Connor and the Reality of Sin in the Catholic World. Missionary Society of St. Paul, NY. 1959. Vol. 188. 285-291. O?Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. The Harper Anthology of Fiction. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. young York. HarperCollins, 1991. 907-917. Stephens, Martha. The Question of Flannery O?Connor. Ed. University Press. Louisiana State Press, 1973. 189-205.