In reading " A Good Man is Hard to Find" O'Conner puts me in a setting of a lower middle class family with a domineering mother, grandmother and a whinny mother-in-law. I tend to believe that O'Conner want's her to be the main character. I would say the grandmother is representative of godliness and Christianity. I haven't read a lot of O'Conner's writings. However just from this one story I get the feeling that she could be telling of the changes that took place in the US after W.W. II when violence began to grow rapidly. In the 50's crime was on everyone's mind and in the newspapers. I feel that this story reflects how O'Connor's view that society was drastically changing for the worse. O'Connor's obvious displeasure with society at the time could have been attributed to her Catholic religion !

he question of Religion to the reader. What I mean by this is, What has happened to the World ? Here you have a dear old lady just trying to get her only son to take her where she wants to go. Consider the Christian idea of evil as opposed to a divine nation of the "good." I noticed how the characters usually are acting from good intentions, attempting to inflict their ideas of what is "good" on the less fortunate . She shows us how violent the recipients of this "good" can become and how they resist it and react to it , Religion that is. Who was the momentary messiah, the-on-the-spot-Jesus the Judas mother giving up her son in hopes that she might live? These are questions I thought O'Connor was asking in "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

The unruly children are representative of the breakdown of respect, and discipline, and are consequently a forecast of future generations. The way they treated the old woman was just like their parents. I feel that they are giving the parents a little taste of their own medicine.

The gap to me is between the son, mother, kids and killer. The Son was a whimp and a momma's boy I could sense that

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