Mapping O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

OConnor, in response to her critics note that a certain measuring stick of the significance A dear Man is unverbalised to Find lies in its utility in terms of teaching as well as in literary analysis.However, in similitude to this aforesaid(prenominal) utility, OConnor besides notes that the school text should not be reduced to a problem to be solved to the extent that it is treated as something which wiz evaporates in night club to get Instant Enlightenment (Fitzgerald 23).In line with this, what follows is an analysis of the aforementioned text OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find which opts to calumniate the amount of evaporation of the text for the purpose of literary analysis.In this paper, I pull up stakes focus on the locations which were qualify in spite of appearance the text. The moderatenesss for this are as follows (1) locations undertake within the text serve to foreshadow the events in the text and (2) locations specified within the text serve to augment th e theme of the text.In reading the aforementioned text, one of the first things that may noticed in the text, itself is the realistic screen background of the story. The story is set in the state of Georgia. In the opening scene, one is presented with a family from Atlanta quarrelling about their vacation plans. The quarrel stems from the grandmothers resistance of the familys decision to take their vacation in Florida.The reason for such an opposition lies in the highly probable perilous conditions in Florida itself since it has been reported that a convict which calls himself The Misfit is heading towards the same direction that existence Florida.It is important to note that during the matter of this quarrel, the reader is presented with the initial details of the familys travel vacation so to speak and the mileage that they will cover which will afterward tie up with the other details in the later phonation of the story. What follows this is a scenic interpretation of Georg ia in the eyes of this family.In this description of the scores which the family passes, it is interesting to note that the family chooses to have lunch in a place called Timothy in Georgia. What is of interest here is that as opposed to gem Mountain, Jasper, and other places that they pass by there is no known particular(prenominal) location in Georgia called Timothy known in the sense that it has a place in the map. The question thereby arises as to OConnors rationale for placing the location within the story.In answer to this Asals notes that this is due to the unorthodox situation of this family. According to Asals, one may conceive of the location Asals as pertaining to the church doctrine of Timothy which discusses the opposition of false doctrine the organization of the church and establishment of ecclesiastical regulations and exhortations which indicate how to be a good citizen and Christian (76).The grandeur of such, in relation to the story, may be understood if o ne considers the heretical condition of the aforementioned family. The heretical condition is evident in the opposition of the grandmothers carriage and her actions during the period of her youth.OConnor, in this sense, may be seen as portraying the parallel between her characters who have left the tenets of Christian faith and Pauls warning to those who commit such actions.Within this context, it is thereby possible to understand O Connors work specifically the aforementioned text as enabling a certain form of locationality which opts to counter the rationalistic, materialistic, and humanistic notion which pervaded during her time.This is best understood if one considers the aforementioned interpretation in relation to her warning as to the evaporation resulting from Instant Enlightenment.Within this context, it is possible to posit that within a materialistic in a sense on a existence highly grounded on realism the choice of the path in which one chooses has a direct effect on t he meaningfulness of ones earthly conduct in the same manner in which The Misfit took hold of the familyWorks CitedAsals, Frederick and Flannery OConnor. A Good Man is Hard to Find. London Rutgers, 1993.OConnor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. A Good Man is Hard to Find and early(a) Stories.Fitzgerald, Sally, ed. The Habit of Being Letters of Flannery OConnor. By Flannery OConnor. new-sprung(prenominal) York Farrar, 979.