¶ … character with reference to main themes of the short story, 'A good man is hard to find' by Flannery O'Connor. Grandmother occupies the most important place in the story along with the Misfit. She is quite a manipulative woman whose real character surfaces when she is closest to death.
Good Man is Hard To Find' good man is hard to find' is not exactly the kind of story that you would want to read again and again. This is because there is certain air of evilness surrounding the entire plot and the ending is pretty grotesque. The characters are all rather bleak and death seems to prevail over every scene and conversation. Symbolism has been used effectively to accentuate the presence of death and homicide. Though there appears to be nothing extraordinary about the story, the only thing that really attracts the attention of the readers is close to perfect development of characters. The most interesting character is that of grandmother who doesn't have any other name in the story. She is the central figure who is full of life and thus least prepared for death. In the beginning of the story, we notice that she is slightly reluctant to go to Florida for a vacation because she has heard about a killer who is on the loose. This shows that woman is scared of death and at the same time she doesn't want to be left alone at home. While many critics have shown an inclination for calling this woman mad or evil, the truth is that this character is slightly eccentric because it is quite out of touch with reality. In my personal opinion, the character was created by the author to show how even the ones who are supposedly closer to death are afraid to die and how her verbal reiteration of religious beliefs contradict with her inner values. This is because had she been a truly religious person, she would have been more prepared for death especially it could be so strongly felt in the air.
Thus I maintain that while this character is negative to certain...
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