A Good Man is Hard to Find - and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

Houghton Mifflin Harcour

1992

252 páginas

8h 24m

ISBN-10: 0151365040

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.

This now-classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor to be one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic, situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy

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A good man is hard to find

“I found out the crime don’t matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a ma man or take a tire of his car, because sooner or later you’re going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it “
“They never shown me my papers. That’s why I sing myself now. I said long ago, you get you a signature and sign everything you do and keep a copy of it. Then you’ll know what you done and you can hold up the crime to the punishment and se do they match and in the end you’ll have something to prove you ain’t been treat right. I call myself the Misfit because I can’t make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.”