Friday, February 5, 2010

A Good Man is Hard to Find

What qualities of the grandmother do you like? What qualities do you dislike? How did you feel when The Misfit killed her? Why?
How would you characterize the other members of the family? What is the function of images like the following: the mother's "face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green head-kerchief that had two points on the top like a rabbit's ears" and the grandmother's "big black valise looked like the head of a hippopotamus"?
How does O'Connor foreshadow the encounter with The Misfit?
What does the grandmother mean by a "good man"? Whom does she consider good people? What are other possible meanings of "good"? Why does she tell The Misfit that he's a good man? Is there any sense in which he is?
Discuss the significance of the Misfit’s statement in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” that the grandmother “would of been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” In particular, how does this relate to the theme of morality in the story?
Is this a morality tale? What is good and evil in the story?

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