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Essay Five Flannery O?Connor?s ?A Good Man Is Hard To Find,? is an account of how a homicidal maniac slaughters a family of ordinary, innocent people whom he happens to encounter on the road. O? Connor interprets the dialogue between the grandmother and the Misfit as a comment on general human and Christian values; represented in the themes of the dysfunctional family, society as a dysfunction and the role of Christianity interwoven in …

…truly Christian! she too must forgive the Misfit and accept him as a child of God. The victims in this story are not heroic figures reduced to misfortune, but yet ordinary characters who succumb to an ill fate. The reader is left with a vision of destruction of human life both literal and figurative. An obvious comment O?Connor was making on the ever-present lack of human and Christian values in contemporary society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**