Summary:
Mary Flannery O'Connor, one of the most talented writers in American modern literature, is especially famous for her short fictions. She died of lupus at an early age of 39. Through the decades the glamour of her works has not vanished but become even more mysterious and attractive. This is a paper that focuses on one of them--A Good Man Is Hard to Find. My paper is mainly divided into five parts. First, I give some history review on the works of Flannery O'Connor, and some history facts on her. Secondly, I illustrate the plot of the short fiction and analysis the main characters in the story, emphasize on their grotesqueness, which is the style of O'Connor.
- Introduction
- 1 History review
For decades, there are many scholars and critics fascinated by the mystery and grotesque of O'Connor's work. Her glamour seems not to be diminished by time at all, on the contrary, it grows more and more complicated and mysterious as the time goes by.
According to the classification by Joanne Halleran McMullen, in her book Writing Against God, there are mainly four critical schools with a representative proponent of each as below:
- "Denies the realization of theological intent"--Carol Shloss, Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference, Louisiana State University Press (1980);
- "Consider O'Connor's outlook to be orthodoxly Catholic"--Carter Martin, The True Country: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Vanderbilt University Press (1969); Kathleen Feeley, Flannery O'Connor: Voice of the Peacock, Fordham University Press (1982)
- Regard O'Connor's religious stance as.....
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