Flanner O'Conner

Flanner O’Conner’s writing Similarities The main characters and surrounding flat characters are comic in that they are inferior characters whom the reader judges as deserving a comeuppance of some kind. In “Good Country People," Joy- Hulga "[believes] herself to be of superior intellect" which leads her to be scammed by Manley Pointer, the bible salesman (Magill 382). Although she is thirty-two years old, Joy continues to live with her mother, Mrs. Hopewell. Mrs. Hopewell …

…stories, “ A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “ Good Country People,” have a “mixture of comedy and horror in the pervasive tone of emotional flatness and irony, and the intimidation of depth and serious meaning on the other”(McFarland 41). Her stories are funny, yet twisted. She does a very good job of keeping the reader wanting to know more. These attributions are what make Flannery O’Conner the unique writer she is truly is.