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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was a writer of short stories and novels in which comedy, grotesquerie, and violence were united with a profound moral and theological vision. Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, the only chil...

Although Flannery O'Connor completed only a relatively small corpus of fiction during her brief life -- two novels and thirty-one short stories between 1945 and her death at thirty-nine in 1964 -- her stunning talent was immediately recognized, and her r...

Flannery O'Connor's life is best summarized in Robert Fitzgerald's introduction to Everything That Rises Must Converge. As friend and literary executor, Fitzgerald writes of her with candor and love: "She was a girl who started with a gift for cartooning...

Baltimore Afro-American 03-26-1999 Is a good man hard to find? Wiley A. Hall, III Local author D. Anne Browne has made it her mission to say good things about Black men. She has established a web site, www.agoodblackman.com devoted to...

THE UNIVERSITY of Otago's Emeritus Professor of Politics, James Flynn, has never been one to heed advice to stick to his last, with the result that he has made lasting contributions to a number of areas outside political theory as narrowly conceived. Most...

They don't seem like much at first glance, the two boxes of yellowing letters sitting amid the shelves of aged leather-bound volumes.But the 274 epistles have unlocked two decades' worth of mysteries about the years of correspondence between author Flannery O'Connor and longtime friend, Elizabeth...

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95. The first reaction is visceral, and should be recorded here before the critical faculty interposes to hedge and qualify: I was so thoroughly sucked in and freaked out by...

In the following essay, Dyson explores the links between The Mikado and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find, " maintaining that "both works explore thematically the significance of the mysteriously arbitrary design by which characters and situations are moved despite themselves."

Stephens is an American critic. In the following excerpt, she examines the abrupt shift from comedy to tragedy in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find. "

In the following essay, Montgomery explores the spiritual aspects of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find. "

Analyzes Flannery O' Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find". Discusses the characterization of the Grandmother and the Misfit and examines how their rendezvous connects them both to a religious awakening of faith, grace, and salvation.

Discusses the thematic undertones of the Grandmother and the Misfit's characters in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Characterization of the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor