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  • Misfit On The Other Hand
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    Tanner Varner College Writing Character Comparison The grandmother and The Misfit of Flannery O' Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are backward, opposite images of each other. However, the grandmother does have similarities with the character, Ruby Turpin in O'Connor's short story, "Revelation". The grandmother is portrayed as being a selfish self-involved woman who wants her way, a person with little memory, just a basic old woman living with her only son. The Misfit on the other hand is a ...
  • Misfit Look Like A Killer
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    You are sitting in your living room at home watching the nightly news. The lead story for the night is about a family of four that were murdered. After seeing and hearing about something like that we often ask ourselves, What could possess a person enough to kill another human being? What is it that drives a person to kill? Will we ever know? Many authors use this unique mentality in short stories. They write about what the killer thinks and how he / she acts on his / her thoughts. One of these ...
  • Grandma's Words And Kindness
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    Have you ever met someone who cares so much about the way they look or how people perceive them that they can't even focus on reality? This sums up the way the grandma in a 'Good Man Is Hard To Find'; is in a nutshell. Superficial would also be a good word to describe the way in which Grandma lived her life. Her whole existence on earth was unrealistic and to a certain extent surreal. Grandma led a life of not knowing the meaning of happiness. A perfect existence for grandma would be for everyon...
  • Grandmother And The Misfit
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    "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" Flannery O'Connor's " A Good Man Is Hard To Find" depicts a family's encounter with a criminal escaped from a federal penitentiary and their essential relinquishment of life. The family that the story surrounds has planned a trip to Florida for a family vacation. Knowing but unconcerned about the criminal at large, also known as the Misfit, the family voyages onward towards their destination until the trip is abruptly stopped by a totally unnecessary exploration down...
  • Misfit And The Grandmother
    441 words
    "A Good Man is Hard to Find", The passage is important to the story because it show the interaction between the Misfit and the grandmother the reader with what would seem to be a forgone conclusion as well as an ending to the story. The grandmother's behavior towards her capture whether it was genuine or pretend ultimately leads to her demise. The importance of this passage to the story is that it tries to, although not in great detail, to explain to the reader the thoughts and mindset of the ch...
  • Misfit
    665 words
    When reading the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O'Connor we are introduced to a character known as the Misfit. All it takes is some interaction between the family and the Misfit and the question arises of whether the Misfit is really a true psychopath or not. A psychopath is "a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behaviour without empathy or remorse". (your dictionary. com) As soon as the grandmother realizes t...
  • Your Grandmother In Reference To The Misfit
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    On countless occasions we have seen that the key to a well-written story is the presentation of a nicely conceived character who is not necessarily the protagonist. The dialogues and actions in which this person is involved and the way he is first described by the author, are essential to the development of the story. In Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Misfit-a criminal escaped from a federal prison-is the perfect example of this type of character. It is quite clear that for ...
  • Misfit On The Other Hand
    806 words
    The Character Analysis of The grandmother and The Misfit of Flannery O? Connor?'s? A Good Man is Hard to Find? The two major characters in Flannery O? Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find are in acualality are a backward, opposite image of each other. The grandmother is showed to be a selfish self-involved woman who wants her way, a person with little memory, just a basic old woman living with her only son. The Misfit on the other hand is a man who feels he has done no wrong, but has just been in...

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