1、A Good Man is Hard to FindFlannery OConnor Born in 1925 in Savannah,Georgia.Entered Georgia State College for Women,graduated in June 1945 with a social sciences degree.Wrote stories out of her Catholic Background.Died in 1964.Primarily known for her short stories.Best known works include short stor
2、ies“A Good Man is Hard to Find”and“Everything That Rises Must Converge.”Her work is full of disturbing elements,and often with a religious or moral issue.A man named Bailey intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer vacation.His mother wants him to drive to East Tennessee,where
3、she has friends.She warns him about a murderer The Misfit who has escaped from prison.But nobody listens to her.The grandmother rides with her family to Florida.They stop for lunch and the grandmother talks happily while the children are sullen and offensive.The grandmother remembers an old house on
4、 their way and the father is forced by children to agree to drive there.The car has an accident and is wrecked.Unfortunately,they run into strangers,one of them the grandmother recognizes as The Misfit.The Misfit talks with the grandmother,while killing all the family one by one.And he kills the gra
5、ndmother at last.Bailey:the grandmothers son,the father of the family,who does not speak with the grandmother excerpt for one or two times.seems to have a problem with his mother.usually ignores his mother.does not have a solution for their encounter with the Misfit.The grandmother:talks a lot.somet
6、imes ignored by all her family.often reminisces about her past glory.flatters people she meets.The Misfit:cold-blooded and brutal.shows genuine pains about his life.in some way is sophisticated.1.Prejudice against others:The grandmother blames others for the problems she sees.She flatters people,eve
7、n The Misfit,when she finds it necessary.discoloration 2.Gods grace:The grandmother,a self-centered and selfish character,seldom thinks about other people.But She is truly touched by The Misfit at the moment of her death.It reveals that man needs critical moments in life to have a sort of awakening,
8、a power from heaven.Keys to the Questions The grandmother tells her son that The Misfit escapes and heads for Florida,which is also the destination of the whlole family.The grandmother:domineering,likes to show off and comment,proud of her status and manners.Bailey and his wife:unresponsive.Children
9、:noisy,self-centered and impolite.The family is actually full of serious problems,which is a lesser degree of evil compared to the crimes committed by The Misfit.It signifies the moral offence in comparison to the criminal offense.The Misfit talks about his family,childhood,jobs and what he thinks a
10、s salvation.It helps to establish the human dimension of The Misfit,because his experience is not different from that of ordinary human beings.The seriousness of The Misfit about his life is in sharp contrast to the grandmothers polishing her past and her life.1.The foreshadowing at the beginning of
11、 the story.2.The fact that the grandmother likes to make comment and insist on her own opinions.That is the moment when the grandmother really sees The Misfit.For the first time she understands his pains.It is at that time she really feels for other people.Earlier on she is indulging herself reminiscing,evaluating and encouraging.The End
