"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 casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the...
"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 pi...
This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of "Wise Blood" to the climactic moments of revelation that infuse "The Violent Bear It Away" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge," O'Connor's novels and stories wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt; they arch between cool narrative and explosive action, between a sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.
This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of "Wise Blood" to th...
