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7 pages in length. The writer discusses symbolism in one of Flannery O'Connor's most famous works. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Flannery OConnor makes in her lecture entitled Writing Short Stories. Living to be only thirty-nine years old when lupus took her life in 1964, it did not take long
for her to became a literary icon. It is difficult for OConnor, who raised peacocks in her hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, to fathom that people perceive writing fiction as
a chore, as one of the "most difficult literary forms" (OConnor #2 PG), when it is something she achieves as though it were of no effort whatsoever. One of
her primary points to writing good fiction involves the use of symbolism, which is more than apparent within the literary boundaries of A Good Man is Hard to Find, where
"a psychopathic killer and a grandmother meet head-on in epic, parabolic violence as large as life, death, faith, and doubt" (Gingher 258). On
the surface, OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find appears innocent enough in its content. But as the reader becomes more and more involved in the symbolic underpinnings
that embody the story, it is quite clear that there is a distinctive flavor of evil versus Christianity. In fact, it has been argued that the extent to which
OConnor utilizes the central theme of Christianity is as a subtle, symbolic plot to convert her readers, whom she had envisioned as nonbelievers. By demonstrating to her audience all
the good that comes from faith, along with all the bad that merely begets more evil, it was her intention to enlighten her readership down the right path.
The grandmother character in A Good Man is Hard to Find is the Christian icon of the story, while the Misfit represents all that is
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