Short Stories by Flannery O'connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find, the Geranium, the Life You Save May Be Your Own, Revelation, the Train
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2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Geranium, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Revelation, The Train, The Turkey, The Crop, The Barber, Wildcat, The Peeler, A Stroke of Good Fortune, The River, . Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a short story written by Flannery O'Connor in 1953. The story appears in the collection of short stories of the same name, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The interpretive work of scholars often focuses on the controversial final scene. The story opens with an unnamed grandmother complaining to her son, Bailey that she would rather go to Tennessee for vacation than Florida. The family resolves to go to Florida regardless. She spites them by rising early and waiting in the car, dressed in her Sunday best, so that if she should die in an accident she will be recognized as "a lady." The grandmother talks incessantly during the trip, recalling her youth in the Old South and commenting on various things she sees. When the family stops at a diner, called "The Tower," for lunch, she engages the owner, Red Sammy, in conversation about an escaped murderer known as "The Misfit." The grandmother agrees with Sammy's assertion that a good man is increasingly hard to find. Back on the road, the grandmother, trying to detour the family away from Florida, begins telling stories about a nearby home that she had visited as a child. Upon hearing that it has secret passages, the children become fixated on visiting the house, and they pester their father until he agrees to follow the grandmother's directions. When her directions lead them down an abandoned dirt road, she realizes that the house is, in fact, in Tennessee and not Georgia. Flustered, she upsets her cat, which panics, causi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=135857
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