A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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The Evil in Everyone

Introduction

Flannery O 'Connor 's 1953 short story A Good Man is Hard to Find ' is a testament to the fact that indeed a good man is hard to find . The story may at first seem like a brutal and meaningless murder of a family of six by an escaped convict named Misfit but in the end one realizes that each of the characters deserves his or her own death for truly not one among them is indeed good , and he irony is that

Misfit seems to be the good guy . This will therefore serve both as a defense of Misfit the antagonist in the story , and an exposition of the evil in each of the other characters particularly those that are murdered . There is evil in everyone and this evil will in one way or another result to certain death or destruction . Similarly , there is goodness in everyone and this goodness will in one way or another make someone triumph . This will prove that in fact the family deserves their death and that Misfit is actually a good man deep inside , or at least , ain 't the worst in the world (O 'Connor

The Evil in the Family Members

As previously mentioned , O 'Connor 's A Good Man is Hard to Find ' may mask itself as an unjust killing spree which claimed the lives of three innocent children and three otherwise good adults . The weak mother and the screaming...