CUNY Bernard M Baruch Morality in A Good Man Is Hard To Find Discussion

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We are going to write final draft rn, I got some comments and feedback on the first draft you can check it out,

according to the comments, I think my professor wants me use the story to illustrate a social phenomenon, i think he wants to see some interesting unique thinking of the insight in the essay, not just the analysis of the story.

So the essay format should be talking about a social phenomenon which could reflect the insight (O’Connor demonstrates the flawed nature of human beings and emphasizes on their hypocritical ways and use of religion to support one’s agendas.

), analysis it, give some example maybe, and use some quotes from story and secondary resources to support the insight.


For the final draft,80% should about the phenomenon, analysis of phenomenon or whatever interesting unique thinking about the insight, 20% use the quotes from story and secondary resources to support the insight.

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Surname 1 Human Flaws as Manifested in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by O’Connor In “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” O’Connor uses various characters to demonstrate the hypocritical nature of people. O’Connor further demonstrates how people use religion to further their interests. Through the character of the grandmother, O’Connor demonstrates human flaws, more so their attraction to some good that is selfishly chosen. While the grandmother perceives herself to be a good, religious and respectable woman, an aspect she emphasizes through her choice of clothing, her actions depict the opposite. She is in the real sense selfish, self-centered, and manipulative. She manipulates everyone around her including her grandchildren in order to get her way. Rather than being concerned with the comfort of her outfits, the grandmother is focused on how her body might appear like in case of an accident and focuses on ensuring she looks ladylike. She is so focused on abiding to social convention she doesn’t comprehend that death is the ultimate end. As a result she is narrow-minded and lacks comprehension of the reality of her mortality. Similarly, although Red Sam perceives himself to be a good man as highlighted by the grandmother, he keeps a monkey cruelly chained and only portrays himself as a wholesome virtuous veteran in order to attract more customers. Hence, through the actions and nature of these characters, O’Connor demonstrates the flawed nature of human beings and emphasizes on their hypocritical ways and use of religion to support one’s agendas. The grandmother likes the idea of being a good person but only does when other people are watching. For example, she obsesses over her dressing because she wants to maintain the picture that she is a good person. To elaborate the relevance of her dressing, the narrator notes that, “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (O’Connor 2). This statement emphasizes the relevance of the grandmother’s appearance to her and the role it play in her life. The grandmother hence constantly attempts to Surname 2 portray an air of respectability and goodness while her action unfortunately depicts the opposite. Her manipulative self-centered personality is portrayed when the grandmother attempts to use the fact that the children had never been to Tennessee in order to change the family’s vacation destination to match her interests. When this doesn’t work, she attempts to use the case of the misfit to further her interest to go to Tennessee. Her use of manipulation to get the children to convince their parents to go and see the house with a secret tunnel is another depiction of her manipulative that contradicts the good and respectable face she attempts to put on. Hani attempts to evaluate some of the social problems highlighted by O’Connor in the story. One such social problem from the story Hani identifies in his work is social status. According to him, although the grandmother knew she was to blame for the accident, she doesn’t take blame for her actions but rather attempts to play a victim. “therefore, the grandmother must maintain her status and reputation here so as not to be blamed for the accident, this sounds pretty selfish enough” (Hani 347). The grandmother attempts to act injured in order to prevent Bailey’s wrath from descending on her. “The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so that Bailey’s wrath would not come down on her all at once.” (O’Connor 4). This further portrays the grandmother to be a liar that further contradicts her self-righteous image. These examples are good, but you need to connect them to your insight: O’Connor demonstrates the flawed nature of human beings and emphasizes on their hypocritical ways and use of religion to support one’s agendas. Red Sam similar to the grandmother is portrayed to be a hypocritical from the word go not clear . Red Sam criticizes his wife for not working hard enough although he proceeds to take a seat himself. Sam and the grandmother agree on most aspects such as how times have changed that lead the grandmother to conclude that he is a good man. This depicts that an individual is perceived to be good if he agrees with the grandmother’s cliche. As a result, the grandmother perceives herself to be righteous enough to discern good men from bad ones. Despite how much Sam attempts to act respectable, it is clearly evident that he is only interested in generating more money and customers as treatment of his wife and the monkey he chains to a tree doesn’t depict him to be a good man at all. so what's the point you're making here? The grandmother also has a very high sense of self-assurance to the extend she feels that she can save her family by flattering the misfit. She constantly tells the misfit that he is a good man under the illusion that this would be enough to get her out of the mess (Harris 3). Although the grandmother makes very few allusions to her religion in the story, she turns to religion when she realizes that flattery doesn’t work. Hence, according to the grandmother, religion is a means to Surname 3 an end, a getaway card to safety away from the misfit. When the religion turns out to be ineffective on the ears of the misfit, the grandmother renounces her own religion in order to save her life. Her rejection of Christ is demonstrated when she says, “Maybe [Jesus] didn’t raise the dead” (O’Connor 8). O’Connor uses this denial of her Christianity by the grandmother to reduce her to a total hypocrite willing to abandon everything including her faith in the face of a life or death situation (Harris 3). O’Connor uses this empty and meaningless faith by the grandmother to criticize the empty and meaningless empty and meaningless what?manifested by many people. The grandmother continuously attempts to convince the Misfit not to kill her while paying little attention to the sealed fate of the rest of her family members. This tension continues to grow until the grandmother makes her final remarks that throw the Misfit in turmoil and he decides to end her life. In a moment of clarity, the grandmother says, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” (O’Connor 8). During her last moments of her life, the grandmother realizes that she and the Misfit are not that much different, she sees herself in the misfit and perceives him to be her Doppelganger (Harris 4). Although she isn’t a maniac like the Misfit, she is a practical atheists and a person who follows a self-righteous lifestyle and only acknowledges the existence of God when it best fits her while willing to deny him when he doesn’t fit her just like the Misfit. It is at this moment that she comes to the realization that she isn’t a good person and neither is the Misfit and as a result they both require radical help. You do have an interesting insight, but you mostly focused on the details and events of the story with very little analysis. In other words, your paper only skims the surface instead of delving deeper to generate an enlightening argument. Works Cited Harris A. C.. "Jesus Thrown Everything Off Balance": Grace and Redemption in Flannery O'Connor 's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" 2014. Surname 4 Hani, Mohamad. "ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL PROBLEM IN A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND BY FLANNERY O’CONNOR." English Community Journal 3.1 (2019): 342-349.
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Morality as depicted in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by O’Connor
In “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” O’Connor presents the readers with a strange form of
morality that is manifested by many characters mainly the grandmother and Red Sam. O’Connor
depicts a morality whereby immoral people claim integrity and hypocrisy and moral corruption
are fascinatingly attached to superficially “good” people. As a result, there are two types of
people in the story, those who out rightly know they are bad people and the ones who insists and
perceive themselves to be good people although their actions show otherwise. The characters
who fall in the first category include the Misfit who rejects all the grandmother’s attempts to
brand him as a good person as he knows the kind of person he is. In the second category of bad
people who believe to be good falls the grandmother and Red Sam. While the grandmother
perceives herself to be a good, religious and respectable woman, an aspect she emphasizes
through her choice of clothing, her actions depict the opposite. She is in the real sense selfish,
self-centered, and manipulative. Similarly, although Red Sam perceives himself to be a good
man as highlighted by the grandmother, he keeps a monkey cruelly chained and only portrays
himself as a wholesome virtuous veteran in order to attract more customers. Hence, through the
actions and nature of these characters, O’Connor emphasizes that only the consistent, thorough
and honest self-reflection of an individual has the ability to yield true integrity in a person.

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The grandmother likes the idea of being a good person but only does when other people
are watching. For example, she obsesses over her dressing because she wants to maintain the
picture that she is a good person. To elaborate the relevance of her dressing, the narrator notes
that, “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway w...


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