Flannery O'Connor

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n is Hard to Find,” “The Articicial Nigger,” and “Revelation.”
O’Connor’s first collection, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” she creates a struggle between two characters, the grandmother and the Misfit, which she displays by their different religious beliefs. “Nowhere is O’Connor’s complex vision, or her skill as a storyteller, better represented then in the title story of her first collection, “A Good Man is Hard To Find” (Desmond 1983). This story is based on a family of six which, on there way driving to Florida, gets wiped out by and escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit. Although the plot might seem plain and “bare to the bones,” its purpose is to isolate the relative importance and development of the characters. Throughout this story the reader can clearly see the religious beliefs revealing itself in the two main characters, the Misfit and the grandmother.
The Misfit is a strange distorted character saying, “I call myself the Misfit, because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment” (A Good Man is Hard To Find…120). Basically, the Misfit’s biggest complaint against human existence is undeserved punishment. He gas this constant negative attitude towards God and Any belief related to that. After the grandmother calls to her dead son to return from the woods, the Misfit recalls his religious thoughts by saying: Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead… and he shouldn’t have done it. By doing that he threw everything off balance. If he did what he said, then its nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No plea...