Marlon Aranda Discussion 10

Within Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” she speaks on how a reader of a story should anticipate the suspense early on, bringing it from the surface and into the interior. What she may have meant when she stated this was that building suspense within a story comes from getting the reader to harbor deeper emotions over what is transpiring over simply knowing what is going to take place. The story dives deeper into the sense of morality with each character, and how they differ in what they believe to be right from wrong. An example from the story is the grandmother displaying self – absorption. What creates suspense is the internal conflict that each of the characters are presented and having doubts about their own sense of morality. The story as a whole focuses on create suspense through capturing the emotions and deep feelings from the reader themselves.