A Crude Portrayal of the World: By Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor wanted her readers to see that the world was filled with ethical, physical, and emotional violence. These very ideas can been seen in her work, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”. One common topic on the piece was the constant use of violence and over rated imagery. O’Connor applied hostility to demonstrate how the destructive impulse brings the horror of …showed first 75 words of 1047 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1047 total…saw the cruel intentions others had toward one another and presented it on paper. Her ability to dig into the human soul and see what others did not was a contributing factor in her works. She knew people wanted to hear the grotesque, but were too scared to verbalize it themselves. Flannery O’Connor portrayed the world in the crude manner that society hide under the table, away from the eyes that are not searching.