A Holistic Analysis of A Good Man is Hard to Find(2)

Mary Flannery O'Connor, a Southern writer, was obsessed with a sardonic Southern Gothic Style and rooted deeply in regional settings and grotesque characters, particularly in chilly environment, growing into worldwide audience’s favorite. Moreover, most of her compositions reveal the strong Roman Catholic faith and unstoppable questions of morality and ethics, so does today’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, one of O'Connor’s best two short stories.
A Good Man is Hard to Find, a Southern Gothic short story first published in 1953, was not only included in many short stories published in Britain and the United States, but also introduced in some books published in China, such as Selected Readings of American Literature, showing the importance and representativeness of this short story. Through narrating a family, on its journey driving from Georgia to Florida, suffered a great calamity by a fugitive who names himself the Misfit, A Good Man is Hard to Find, like most of O'Connor's short stories, skillfully blends the minutiae of everyday life with heinous atrocities to wondrous artistic effect.