A Good Man Is Hard To Find

I actually really liked this story. i thought it was really interesting, and SUPER sad. I know that we're supposed to sympathize with the grandmother and at the very least feel sorry for her but i really disliked her. I thought that she was the most selfish character in the entire story and even though it wasn't entirely her fault that everyone was killed, she still played a really big part, and honestly, i found her character kind of annoying. I also felt really bad for bailey, not because he died (even though that kinda sucks) but because he was just sort of thrust into this situation. I really liked the language used in the story. I liked the quote "She would've been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life," and the one where The Misfit talks about how Jesus thrown everything off balance. I think thats a really interesting way to think about Jesus. 

At first i thought that the title was not very well chosen, but as the story progressed i started to realize why Flannery O'Conner chose to name the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find". I think the reason its named that way is because there are different types of "good" men described in the story. Like even though Baileys mean at times, he is still considered a good man, because he tried to stand up for his family and tried to do the best thing he could for them. Thats totally different from the other type of good man described which i actually think is The Misfit. I think this because even though his actions are horrible, at least through the eyes of the Grandma, we see that he had the possibility to be a good person, which i think is sort of the lesson in this story. That all these good men really aren't that hard to find.