Flannery O`Connor `s short stories of `A Good Man is Hard to Find`

In Flannery O 'Connor 's story A Good Man is Hard to Find the title illustrates the changing times and how progressively from the grandmother 's perspective , the future is quite different from the past in which the grandmother believes that the past presented people with a much simpler way of life and the future is not as decadent and is too complex . The title also refers to the interchange between the grandmother and the Misfit at the end of the story

In fact , the pinnacle moment of the story occurs between the

Misfit and the grandmother . Both use religion to their own device , in similar fashions , but each in a peculiar manner . Although the Misfit believes there is a God , he does not offer himself up to religion , just as the grandmother uses religion to coerce her immediate family to think , and do things according to her liking . Both characters are revealed to be of similar characterizations , but neither of theme supposes this similarity

The Misfit was made a misfit by the society in which he lived , and the way in which he grew up . The grandmother chose to act the way she acts but in some instances her reaction to the world around her may be attributed to the lifestyle she 's lead . It seems that O 'Connor created this story in to allow for the reader to decide their own moral grounds , or at least to challenge their own religious rites , and beliefs

The Misfit is a man who was has recently escaped from prison . When the grandmother and the Misfit meet up on a country road after the grandmother 's family has been in a car wreck the Misfit and his gang take care of the family , with the Misfit killing the grandmother last The title of the book bears relevance to this in that the ideals that the grandmother tries to uphold and apply to the Misfit bear no relevance in reality for her , the title connotes that the past is unattainable , a good man is hard to find means that the world is changing rapidly and her reference towards life is outdated . For the Misfit the title connotes his childhood and how he simply was borne bad and that the object of a good man being hard to find entails the psycho-socio-balance that cannot exist rightly in any man . Here again the reader comes across a contention point in which there is a cyclical argument where the character becomes trapped due to outside sources

Furthermore , the title resembles in a way how a the world has lapsed in faith both the grandmother and the Misfit have a lack of faith in anything , and as O 'Connor has written the story she adds in her touch of personality "If you would pray " the old lady said "Jesus would help you "That 's right " The Misfit said "Well then , why don 't you pray " she asked trembling with delight suddenly "I don 't want no...