A Good Man is Hard to Find v.s. A Little Cloud

A Good Man is Hard to Find

 As persons we must first seem comfortable with all aspects of ourselves because if we don't someone or something will always be there to exploit our weaknesses. Situations are not habitually as they seem. Flannery O'Connor supplies a glimpse of Christ-like redemption in her short article “A Good Man is hard to find”. The topic of this story is based upon the gathering of the inevitable death and the judgment of sinners. The Grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is in requiring of salvation. This woman has a selfish expectation towards life. She often puts vanity before good sense.

 O'Connor's use of irony and character development went hand-in-hand through the story and ironically the fate of the entire family was foreshadowed in the newspaper the grandmother used when she endeavored to pursued her son Bailey to proceed to Tennessee instead of Florida for the trip.

Bailey is the son of the principal character in the story, the Grandmother, and is the father of June Star and John Wesley. He drives the vehicle as the family embarks on their vacation. Bailey's major importance in the story is his relationship to other persons, especially his mother.

 The Misfit is an escaped murderer who murders the family at the end of the article and fires the Grandmother three times in the chest. Described as wearing tan and white footwear, no socks, no top, he is an older man with glasses "that gave him a scholarly look."

 The Grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is the story's primary character. Her devout epiphany at the story's end supplies the philosophical push behind the narrative.

O'Connor's fond of giving her characters speech that reflects their age, social class, or district (almost always Southern). The kids constantly say exaggerated things that sound childish - like "We've had an ACCIDENT" in all caps, or June Star's "wouldn't manage that for a million bucks." And of course The Misfit has a spoke down-home Southern (and smaller class) accent, topped up with "oncet" and "twict," "would of" instead of "would have," "Yes'm," and "nome." This contrasts rather sharply with the grandmother's standard speech.

 This is most applicable to the two foremost individual features, the grandmother and The Misfit. The grandmother's nostalgia for the vintage days, her emphasis on manners, and her equation of "good blood" with "goodness" notify us a allotment about her.

A Little Cloud

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, just south of Dublin in a rich suburb called Rathgar. The Joyce family was initially well off as Dublin merchants with bloodlines that attached them to vintage Irish nobility in the country.“A Little Cloud” maps the frustrated aspirations Little Chandler has to change his life and pursue his dream of composing poetry. The story contrasts Little Chandler's dissatisfaction and temerity with Gallaher's bold composing career abroad. Little Chandler accepts as true that to do well in life, one must depart ...