Flannery O’Connor’s short stories “A good man is hard to...

Flannery O’Connor’s short stories â€Å"A good man is hard to find† and â€Å"Revelation† share many similarities. While â€Å"A good man is hard to find† is about a family that goes on a vacation that ultimately results in all of their deaths. â€Å"Revelation† is about a woman who is very judgmental and looks down on people. In the end both characters have revelations that contrast with who they are and how they portray themselves to the world. The protagonist in ‘Revelation† is Mrs. Turpin, and she depicts herself as a woman who is classy, respectable and is above all of those who are in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. Mrs. Turpin thinks that she is superior because she judges others based on social standing and believes she is high on†¦show more content†¦Turpin’s standards in her eyes. The readers can see through Mrs. Turpins thoughts and views how brutal and harsh she really is for example, when Mrs. Turpin is talking to herself and asks herself a question â€Å"If Jesus had said to her before he made her, there’s only two places available for you. You can either be a nigger or white trash, what would she have said?† Mrs. Turpin answers with â€Å"All right, make me a nigger then- but that don’t mean a trashy one. And he would have made her a neat clean respectable Negro-woman, herself but black.† (416). The grandmother in â€Å"A good man is hard to find† is very similar to Mrs. Turpin as well. The grandmother claims to be a lady, but she is really a manipulator, she wants everything to go her way. For example when she brings the cat along for the vacation trip despite Bailey not wanting to bring it along. Also when the grandmother manipulates the kids into wanting to go see a plantation by saying that it has a secret panel. â€Å"There was a secret panel in this house†, she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing t hat she were.† (408) â€Å"The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee.† (409). The grandmother remembers that the house was somewhere else however; she â€Å"decided that she would not mention it† (410). Both characters in the end have revelations that are complete opposite of who they are. In â€Å"Revelation†Show MoreRelated OConnor Character Traits Essays1033 Words   |  5 PagesOConnor Character Traits In Flannery OConnors short stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Revelation, and Greenleaf, the main character in each share similar traits. Though the grandmother, Mrs. Turpin, and Mrs. May differ from each other in many aspects, there are three notable traits that each clearly possesses. Each of these individuals is highly conscious of their own social status, is socially prejudiced, and is extremely racist. Each of the women is revealed as being highlyRead MoreCosmology and Southern Gothic2051 Words   |  9 Pagesdid we get here,† deals with cosmology, the study of the universe. No one knows for sure how the universe works or how we got here, but many Southern Gothic authors, such as Flannery O’Connor and Edgar Allan Poe, use their literature as a way of expressing their beliefs about the clockwork of the universe. These authors use their dark and grotesque fictional stories to make sense of where we, as humans, stand in the universe. In The Violent Bear it Away, O’Connor uses Francis Tarwater, a miracleRead MoreEssay on A Good Man is Hard to Find: The Cross of Two Spiritual Paths2192 Words   |  9 Pagesanecdote continually permeate the text of Flannery OConnors short stories. As exhibited in the aforesaid account, each man, by asking Jesus to bestow his grace upon him, possesses his own chance for salvation, but only one of the men actually seizes this opportunity; this closely resembles the final scene in which the two man characters of this Flannery OConnor classic also encounter this opportunity for deliverance. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O Connor by utilizing the characterizationRead MoreANALIZ TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS28843 Words   |  116 Pagesthat may prove helpful. PLOT The Elements of Plot When we refer to the plot of a work of fiction, then, we are referring to the deliberately arranged sequence of interrelated events that constitute the basic narrative structure of a novel or a short story. Events of any kind, of course, inevitably involve people, and for this reason it is virtually impossible to discuss plot in isolation from character. Character and plot are, in fact, intimately and reciprocally related, especially in modern fiction