"A Good Man Is Hard To Find"

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The paper discusses how in the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" Flannery O'Connor uses the grandmother's outfit and cat, and two luxury items that the woman relishes, as symbols of the contrast between her bourgeoistic claims and actions and her true poverty. The paper thus shows how this work can be categorized with those works that deal with poverty and the type of character who tries to mask his poverty.

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"As a genre, the Southern literary tradition has contributed greatly to the lexicon of American literature. Far more than other local color writers or regionalists, the Southern writer has presented readers with a colorful depiction of the manners, culture, and history that make this region of the United States so different than any other. Flannery O'Connor, with her unique perspective and impeccable description of Southern characters, cannot be forgotten as one of the region's most celebrated writers."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Katz, Claire. "Flannery O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American Literature. 46.1 (1974): 54-67.
• Martin, Carter. "Flannery O'Connor and Fundamental Poverty." The EnglishJournal. 60.4 (1971): 458-461.
• O'Connor, Flannery. "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Thinking and Writing Eighth Edition. Ed. Michael Meyer. Bedford: St. Martin's, 2007. 445-455.
• Yaghjuan, Lucretia B. "Flannery O'Connor's Use of Symbol, Roger Haight's Christology, and the Religious Writer." Theological Studies. 63.2 (2002): 268-302.
• Spivey, Ted R. "Flannery O'Connor, James Joyce, And The City." Studies in Literary Imagination. 20.2 (1987): 87-96.

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