A Good Man is Hard to Find

A Good Man Is Hard To Find In the story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” Flannery O’Connor attempt to show her readers of the error of their humanistic assumptions and their limitless need for God’s grace. She does this through the implicit comparison of a little old lady and a serial killer, the Misfit. Most reader would assume that the old woman should represents a qualified sort of goodness and the …

…The Misfit represents the power to return sinners to God, to bring them up short with the worthlessness of their humanity in the face of God’s power. The old woman represents one desperately in need of this service, and who receives it in the end. Through turning our sense of values upside down, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” have successfully demonstrate the difference between moral complacency and the true goodness before God.