Essay Five Flannery O?Connor?s ?A Good Man Is Hard To Find,? is an account of how a homicidal maniac slaughters a family of ordinary, innocent people whom he happens to encounter on the road. O? Connor interprets the dialogue between the grandmother and the Misfit as a comment on general human and Christian values; represented in the themes of the dysfunctional family, society as a dysfunction and the role of Christianity interwoven in …showed first 75 words of 1474 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1474 total…truly Christian! she too must forgive the Misfit and accept him as a child of God. The victims in this story are not heroic figures reduced to misfortune, but yet ordinary characters who succumb to an ill fate. The reader is left with a vision of destruction of human life both literal and figurative. An obvious comment O?Connor was making on the ever-present lack of human and Christian values in contemporary society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**