Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is character driven.
             First, she introduces the characters in a way that allows the reader to see
             and understand the character. Yet her use of characterization is more than
             introducing the character to the reader. She effectively uses her
             characters to symbolize truth, the human problem which is universal.
             Through characterization she gives her work vitality, allowing the work to
             take on a life of its own. In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," O'Connor gives
             the role of symbolizing truth and the role of adding vitality to the piece
             through the use of the main character of the story, the grandmother.
             Flannery O'Connor's characters in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" are
             amusing and typical of the rural South. However the characters are shallow
             and seem void of any sort of spirituality. She describes the characters in
             her stories as "poor, afflicted in both mind and body, [with] little-or at
             best a distorted sense of spiritual purpose" (Polter). Besides using
             characterization as metaphors to other things, she successfully uses the
             technique to make readers feel as if they are in the same room with the
             person. Her descriptions are not flowery and are woven into the story at
             the precise point where a trait or physical description should be made
             known to the reader. She also uses other characters to help paint a picture
             Examples of characterization of the grandmother that gives the readers
             a firm view of the person begins in the first sentence of the story,
             O'Connor introduces the grandmother with, "the grandmother didn't want to
             go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in Tennessee. .
             ." (O'Connor 117). From this passage, O'Connor is introducing her readers
             to a woman who tries to control the family, but does not. O'Connor also
             describes the grandmother in the first paragraph though use of dialog.
             Readers immedi...