O’Connor’s Mission Essay -- Literary Analysis

It is a given that Flannery OConnor is one of the most recognized southern female writers. This is mostly due to the sharp religious content and reality in her writings. One of those stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, is one that combines her love of religion with her personal experience. It is a spirit level on which its simple beginning tricks the reader, and its complex ending brings both questions and tears. What looks like just a field trip vacation turns into an unnecessary massacre for the persona of understanding both religion and the human race. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, OConnor is able to leave impressions of her life on the location, characters, and scenes by the use of her love of religion and life experiences. Most of her life, Flannery OConnor traveled around the United States, yet most of her life was spent in a place near Milledgeville, Georgia (May 17). On this detail, we can infer that it was no coincidence that she picked Georgia as her starting locati on for the story. It was a town she knew best, and could for certain describe to the perfection any places that she wouldve wanted to add. In the case of the story, OConnor only describes one place, The Tower, and a little restaurant inside it where the family dines in. The tower was a part stucco and part filling station and dance hall set in a clearing outside the timothy (OConnor 302). Deferring from this description, OConnor moldiness have been in that place at least ten times because a person who has never been to Georgia could never know what The Tower, its location and the Timothy were, nor would they have been able to guess on such a place. OConnor included some of her life settings in order to make the storys setting more existent and credib... ...ically with A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery OConnor shows her biography to the world, and keeps her identity hidden while making a realistic story that we can all learn and ponder about. Works CitedFlannery OConnor. Geor gia Literary Festival. Georgia College and state University, 12 Dec 2000. Web. 27 damage 2012. .Magee, Rosemary M. Conversations with Flannery OConnor. Mississippi University Press of Mississippi, 1987. 5-10. Print.May, Charles Career, Life, and Influence Critical Insights Flannery OConnor. 1st edition. Salem Press, 2012. 3-22. Print.OConnor Flannery A Good Man Is Hard To Find The Norton Introduction To Literature. Shorter tenth ed. Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. New York, London W.W. Norton & Co Inc., 2010. 299-310. Print.