Change

In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a large deal of irony is used to express her views on how people and culture changed. O’Connor used the grandmother as a key component in the story because of her personality and also because of her old age. O’Connor was able to show her feelings about the devaluation of respect for family and elders through the grandmother. The …

…to follow your own road, whether it is wrong or right. The strive to be free is not a great way of life which religion nor education can overcome. The grandmother represented a dying group of people, who are being replaced by a new generation, which is very different from ones of yesterday. The people of this day and age will have to pay sometimes, and society already shows the shotgun wounds to prove it.