A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Grandmother 's Character Analysis

Introduction

Flannery O 'Connor obviously has an odd taste in creating fictional stories which are somewhat always related to a certain issue in a society . In her short story A Good Man is Hard to Find ' readers are faced with the gradual transition of the story from slight humor to a tragically religious-oriented finale . A Good Man is Hard to Find ' is narrated in limited omniscience where the readers follow the plot of the story through the grandmother 's point

of view . The introductory sentence of the story states , The grandmother didn 't want to go to Florida (O 'Connor 31 . This simple introduction shows whose point of view the narrative is based upon and who the primary character of the story is However , one can query why the story . The answer lies in the fact that it is quite unlikely because the grandmother died in the end therefore , the type of narrative used all throughout the story provides a clue of her fate in the end

The Grandmother as a Round Character

Round characters in a story have complex personalities which usually resemble real people . They are depicted in contrast to flat characters that are stereotypically characterized with only one type of personality (Griffith 54 . In O 'Connor 's story , it is evident that the grandmother has numerous traits which form her complex personality . She is characterized to be manipulative as she tries to...