Comparing Pride in A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People and

fleece in A levelheaded macrocosm is fractious to Find, Good Country People and Revelation Pride is a very relevant issue in almost bothones lives. Only when a person is force to face his pride can he generate to overcome it. Through the similar themes of her short stories, Flannery OConnor attempts to make her characters realize their pride and overcome it. In A Good objet dart is Hard to Find, the grandmother is a distinctive Southern madam. This constant effort to present herself a Southern lady is where her pride is grounded. She criticizes the mothers travel outfit, hardly she herself is wearing a prim and proper-and plausibly uncomfortable-outfit so that anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady (OConnor, A Good Man 382). She recalls exactly how to start out a certain woodlet she used to visit, and the children convince their father to turn the car around. However, the grandmother realizes that the plantation is in another state unless is excessively prideful to admit so. This pride follows her to the point of grace when The Misfit forces her to see reality. According to Ellen Douglas, the evil in charitable hearts, and the possibility of grace, the gift of love, are made terrifyingly and excellently real when the grandmother, at gunpoint, admits that The Misfit really is, in her standards, a good man at heart (381). He is better able to express his beliefs about religion, but she has no firm foundation. When he says, She would have been a good woman, if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life, he is revealing the fact that her pride, quite of her faith, has carried her through life (OConnor, A Good Man 392). She has merely acted out the life of a typical Southern lady of he... ...e. Grace allows this change to happen, but one must be willing to face hardships and difficulties because the road to redemption is narrow and rocky. Works Cited Douglas, Ellen. OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find. Contemporary Literature Criticism. Eds. Carolyn Riley and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Detroit, MI Gale, 1976. Vol. 6. 381. Edwards, Jr., Bruce L. OConnors Good Country People. Masterplots II-Short Story Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasedena, CA Salem P, 1986. Vol. 2. 901-902. OConnor, Flannery. Good Country People. Meyer 392-406. --------. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Meyer 381-392. --------. Revelation Meyer 407-420. Meyer, Michael, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature Reading, Thinking, Writing. fifth ed. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. --------. OConnor on Theme and Symbol Meyer 423-424. Comparing Pride in A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People and Pride in A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Country People and Revelation Pride is a very relevant issue in almost everyones lives. Only when a person is forced to face his pride can he begin to overcome it. Through the similar themes of her short stories, Flannery OConnor attempts to ma ke her characters realize their pride and overcome it. In A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother is a typical Southern lady. This constant effort to present herself a Southern lady is where her pride is grounded. She criticizes the mothers traveling outfit, but she herself is wearing a prim and proper-and probably uncomfortable-outfit so that anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady (OConnor, A Good Man 382). She recalls exactly how to find a certain plantation she used to visit, and the children convince their father to turn the car around. However, the grandmother realizes that the plantation is in another state but is too prideful to admit so. This pride follows her to the point of grace when The Misfit forces her to see reality. According to Ellen Douglas, the evil in human hearts, and the possibility of grace, the gift of love, are made terrifyingly and magnificently real when the grandmother, at gunpoint, admits that The Misfit really i s, in her standards, a good man at heart (381). He is better able to express his beliefs about religion, but she has no firm foundation. When he says, She would have been a good woman, if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life, he is revealing the fact that her pride, instead of her faith, has carried her through life (OConnor, A Good Man 392). She has merely acted out the life of a typical Southern lady of he... ...e. Grace allows this change to happen, but one must be willing to face hardships and difficulties because the road to redemption is narrow and rocky. Works Cited Douglas, Ellen. OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find. Contemporary Literature Criticism. Eds. Carolyn Riley and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Detroit, MI Gale, 1976. Vol. 6. 381. Edwards, Jr., Bruce L. OConnors Good Country People. Masterplots II-Short Story Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasedena, CA Salem P, 1986. Vol. 2. 901-902. OConnor, Flannery. Good Country People. Meyer 392-406. --------. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Meyer 381-392. --------. Revelation Meyer 407-420. Meyer, Michael, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature Reading, Thinking, Writing. 5th ed. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. --------. OConnor on Theme and Symbol Meyer 423-424.