A Good Man
To interpret or not to interpret A Good Man is Hard to Find on a religious level is the question for this story. It has often confounded college students because they were told in the past that the Misfit can be seen as a Christ-figure. However, even if some clever parallels can be established ,such a symbolic reading is far from Flannery O'Connor's intentions and thus raises the issue of authorial intentionality.It is a …
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…moment of grace suspends the action under a surreal sky that hangs over the murdered bodies--perhaps a moment for the reader to reflect on the significance of the phrase "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". The Misfit's unexpected comment on the grandmother is a last ironic reminder of the universality of this title. "She would of been a good woman....if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
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