Essay on “A Good Man is Hard to find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” both by Fannery O'Connor

Issue One:

Caroline was Julian's mother's nanny when she was a youthful child. Julian's mother cites to her as an ''old darkly'' but in addition allegations that ''there was no better someone in the world.'' Caroline is the last someone Julian's mother calls for before she deceases, putting forward a revisit to childhood and in addition a bona fide closeness with the woman.

The Grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is the story's major character. Her spiritual epiphany at the story's end gives the philosophical shove behind the narrative. By giving her no label other than Grandmother and crotchety two-way chat that gives much of the story's comedy, O'Connor dyes her as a tragically comic caricature, one that a student can without difficulty, but erroneously, sense advanced to. She is egotistical and pushy; in item, her wish for to observe a home from her childhood effects in the family's death at the end of the story.

  

Issue Two:

The Misfit is an eluded murderer who puts to death the family at the end of the narrative and discharges the Grandmother three times in the chest. Described as wearing tan and white boots, no socks, no garment, he is an older man with glass utensils "that granted him a scholarly look." By his dialogue, readers can advise that he is rather uneducated. However, he chats to the grandmother and the other people with intentional politeness. He stays composed right through the outlook as he instructs his two companions, Bobby Lee and Hiram, to take the family to the woods.

The Grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the story's major character. Her spiritual epiphany at the story's end gives the philosophical shove behind ...