By pure happenstance the family takes a detour up the wrong dirt road to view a southern mansion that the grandmother recalls seeing in her youth. By pure happenstance the grandmother sees in the newspaper a photograph of the recently escaped killer called the Misfit. The family in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” are just ordinary folks going on a vacation from Tennessee to Florida. Inspired by Poe’s equal bloodthirstiness, O’Connor (who attended Catholic mass regularly) with raw irony ripped from the newspaper headlines shows us the snake in the garden of Eden.
A normal, everyday family (a father, a mother, three children and a grandmother) becomes involved in blood-drenched horror when they encounter a stone-cold killer on a vacation trip. The above quote comes near the end of Flannery O’Connor’s shockingly brutal short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” That story, from the early 1950s, defines the modern Southern Gothic sensibility in American fiction. Ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them.
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