Daily Archives: November 6, 2024

In “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor was a great read. Some ideas that come across the short story are manipulation. The grandmother uses manipulation through the children to get what she wants from the adults in the car. When children are unaware of manipulation, it makes it easier for the grandmother to brainwash the kids, Another specific idea of the story is sometimes people hide their real intentions and they can be decieving. In the story, the grandmother tries to persuade the misfit that he’s a good person. Also the grandmother appears to be ladylike and a good person but as the story goes on it reveals that she is selfish and she tries to be decieving. Lastly, a specific idea the story portrays is violence. As the grandmother is talking to the misfit the other prisoners take the family deep in the woods to execute the other family members.