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Flannery O 'Connor's Story A Good Man Is Hard To Find'

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Society approves of only appearances, not how people really are. It often shapes how one generation views what the next generation is doing. In Flannery O'Connor's story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", O'Connor explores appearances of an individual versus the actuality of what an individual is. The grandmother seems to be a kindly and good-natured woman. The various
Remarks she makes reveals her as being rather duplicitous at worse, and absent-minded at best.
The comment that changes her from kindly to the various ways she is wrong, is when she realizes that she may have forgotten where the house really was, after she got the kids excited about it and convinced her son to take the family to the house. To keep suspicion off of her after
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She lied to her grandchildren about a house having a secret panel which lead to a room with silver that was supposedly from the Civil War. The grandmother had hidden her cat inside a basket, because she was worried about the cat brushing against a gas burner and asphyxiating himself, which is against what her son would approve of. That decision lead to a sequence of events that resulted in the family's car crashing and their encounter with The
Misfit.

The Misfit can be seen as a way to reveal the actual thoughts an individual has,
Because when an individual is in a life or death situation they are not worried about putting on appearances. The conflict between the grandmother and The Misfit is interesting, due to how one conforms to society and the other rejects what society is. When The Misfit is talking with the grandmother and she is trying to convince him to spare her, The Misfit

The grandmother is interesting, due to the conflict between her appearance and how she actually thinks and feels is generally a reflection of the signs of the times she is in. Throughout the story, the grandmother is in conflict with her family due to not being able to relate to

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