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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Shirley Jackson and Flannery O’Connor in terms of their characters and themes. No sources cited.
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presented characters in deep ways that offered the reader something of a shock. The following paper examines these authors, comparing and contrasting their characters and themes. The paper utilizes OConnors
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People, and Jacksons The Lottery. Shirley Jackson and Flannery OConnor In all three of these stories there are
women portrayed as simple, somewhat country, individuals. In A Good Man is Hard to Find there is the grandmother, a simple country woman who is very arrogant and presumptuous, believing
that she knows everything there is to know and presuming that she is the righteous one. In The Lottery there are several women, all living in a country setting, who
follow their simple town rules and are housewives, which one can assume the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find is one also. Then there is Good Country
People wherein Joys mother is clearly a simple, trusting, woman of God who is living in the country. Joy, however, is the one who seems to emulate the righteous arrogance
of the grandmother in OConnors other story. All these women are central to the themes in the stories for they all apply to the focus on community, God, arrogance,
and dangers inherently possessed in all of these elements. For example, the grandmother will ultimately be killed by the Misfit, Joy will be humiliated and humbled by the stranger who
pretends to be a Bible salesman, and the people, more specifically Mrs. Hutchinson who symbolizes the people of the community in her ultimate stoning. In each plot the women find
themselves in grave danger, most of them being killed, and they thus offer up themes. The grandmother is a woman who relies on the Bible as truth, though she
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