A Holistic Analysis of A Good Man is Hard to Find(4)

In terms of situation irony, there is plenty of evidence concerning situation irony through the whole story. With the help of these situation irony orderly interspersed, a story full of apparent irony features could be developed and the relevant part about the grandmother should be highlighted. Her precautions taken to prevent something unfortunate from happening caused it to happen inevitably. In A Good Man is Hard to Find, Grandma had planned everything carefully that she insisted on diverting Tennessee to avoid the Misfit and widen the children’s horizon at the same time, but instead they ran into the Misfit who killed the whole family to revenge the world. What’s more, she smuggled her cat, which ends up causing a car crash that exposes the unarmed family to the Misfit. Normally speaking, the arrangement of the changes of route and people’s behaviors seem to be reasonable and understandable, but the coming misery might be a little ridiculous and heartbreaking. However, it is the combination of ration and extremity that composed situation irony art and reflected the contradictory values, ideologies, emotional experiences, and profound understanding of the absurdity of reality of the O'Connor’s inner world.