Essay A Good Man Is Hard to Find Analisys 6 - 1120 Words

You are sitting in your living room at home watching the nightly news. The lead story for the night is about a family of four that were murdered. After seeing and hearing about something like that we often ask ourselves, What could possess a person enough to kill another human being? What is it that drives a person to kill? Will we ever know? Many authors use this unique mentality in short stories. They write about what the killer thinks and how he/she acts on his/her thoughts. One of these stories is A Good Man Is Hard To Find, by Flannery OConnor. In this story OConnors victim, The Misfit, is an escaped convict. He was in the Federal Penitentiary for killing his father. Throughout the story OConnor builds up this killers†¦show more content†¦Since the grandmother and the rest of the family knew who this mystery man was, The Misfit immediately considered all of them to be a threat. He makes this assumption without considering the slightest possibility that the fa mily might not turn him in. Once again his fantasy state-of-mind takes over. The thrill of the fantasy for the killer was having enemies, and thats the only way The Misfit looked at the situation. Moments later The Misfit releases some of his stress when he tells two of his companions to bring two of the children back into the woods. The grandmother hears gunfire and shivers in pain, not knowing the two children were just killed. She then begins to ask The Misfit about his life, I just know youre a good man, the woman said (OConnor 688). The Misfit slowly began to tell the woman about his parents and his childhood. He explained how his father looked down upon him; youre a different breed of dog, he once said (OConnor 688). The grandmother waits with anticipation as The Misfit tells her about his life. After hearing about his hardships and misfortunes, tells The Misfit to pray for help. He listens to her and shows no response. The Misfit did not know what he was punished f or: somewheres along the line I done something wrong and I got sent to the penitentiaryÂ…I forget what I done lady. I set thereÂ… trying to remember what it was I done and I