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A 14 page paper showing how foreshadowing both increases suspense as the story unfolds and underscores the story's theme, makes its ending seem completely inevitable. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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was a great benefit to her fiction, because of the way fiction builds on the real connections between the physical and the spiritual. For all OConnors characters, the pivotal moments
in their lives occur with an experience of a breakthrough to Christian consciousness, and are foreshadowed from the very beginning of the story to the end, just as she believed
our lives are. Flannery OConnors "A Good Man is Hard to Find" opens with a family in discord; neither Bailey nor his mother are able to command any respect from
the impudent children, and we sense a tension between the weak-willed Bailey and his tremendously self-righteous mother. The grandmother tries unsuccessfully to convince Bailey to visit her relations in East
Tennessee -- to go home, in effect -- and, failing this, she brings her cat along on the Florida trip, despite the fact that she knows the cat annoys Bailey.
The children are simply brats. This is one dysfunctional family -- out of sync with themselves, and, most importantly to OConnor, out of sync with God. But what is remarkable
about this story is the way OConnors use of foreshadowing draws a number of direct lines from almost any point in the story straight to its horrific end. According to
Sylvan Barnet?s A Short Guide To Writing About Literature, foreshadowing in literature "which [one would think] would eliminate surprise, or at least greatly reduce it, and thus destroy a story
that has nothing else to offer, a powerful tool in the hands of the writer of serious fiction" (Barnet, 55). Similarly, Richard Walter points out that "while a smart writer
has no desire to telegraph events before they occur, some predictability is nevertheless useful -- even necessary -- toward moving an audience through a tale. . . . A
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