A Holistic Analysis of A Good Man is Hard to Find(3)

Diverse irony
Through closer reading and specified attention to descriptive details, irony, one of O'Connor’s mastered skills, made significant contributions to illustrate various bizarre worlds and brought impressive shocks to the audience, turning out to be a key to understanding the motivation of creation.
Within our cognitive definitions, irony can be explained that people tend to express their emotion in an opposite direction when the latter comes to its zenith, which changes into adopting contrary words as an aspect of literature. In this way that criticizing with complimentary factors, rather than something malicious, writers can successfully brew their anger and make a complaint against those disgusting phenomena.

Back to A Good Man is Hard to Find, in order to grasp a comprehensive understanding of O'Connor’s irony art, we can start our profound analysis work out of three main aspects, language, situation, and structure.
In terms of language irony, the story presented different details to make the grandmother look graceful, educated, religious, and intelligent. For example, she insisted on bringing her cat with the family travel in case the cat suffered gas poisoning. Once upon she got opportunities to chat with somebody, she would automatically complain about the cruel reality that A Good Man is Hard to Find. However, she was actually lost in self-deception and released a great sense of control. She was eager to build her own world by controlling people and even everything around her, to ensure everything ran her way. At the beginning, she continuously judged the parents’ arrogance that they refused her proposal for travelling somewhere familiar. Then, the grandma lured the whole family to a lonely trail for treasure existing in her independent memory, which incurred horrible death to all of them. Finally, holding convincible confidence in God, she stepped forward to save the Misfit and import hope of life, but was instantly shot and died desolately. Above all, the impressive contrast between the descriptive language and the truth made grandmother’s deceiving appearance vivid and magnified O'Connor’s criticism and negative attitudes to that society.