"The literary works of Flannary O'Connor often contend that religious belief can only consummated by direct confrontation with evil, and for those uncommitted and unprepared, tragedy seems inevitable"(Cook). O'Connor was born in 1925 to a catholic family in Savannah, Georgia. She attended the University of Iowa were she studied writing and she later moved to New York to finish writing her first novel. O'Connor was diagnosed with lupus, the same immune system disease that had killed her father and would eventually take her life as well. Before her death at the age of 39 years old, she managed to keep writing and publishing stories. Many people consider O'Connor a Christian writer, and undeniably Christian concepts such as free will, sin, and salvation appear in all of her stories. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find is one of O'Connor's' most well-known works, the story was written in 1953 but wasn't published until 1955"(shmoopeditorialteam). In " A Good Man Is Hard to Find" O'Connor uses southern literature, common place language, and Christian concepts to show how even the most tortured characters, such as the Grandmother in the story can obtain spiritual redemption after being challenged by the darker side of human nature. The story shows us that anybody can gain salvation, no matter the severity of the sin, but by humbly asking for forgiveness for your sins and accepting Christ as your savior and putting all your faith in him.
             In "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" the grandmother is the main character of the story. The Grandmother who remains nameless throughout the story is a round character, who is a selfish, manipulative woman, who undergoes a deep epiphany in the end before losing her life. In the beginning the Grandmother looks at herself as morally superior to others because she is a "lady" but repetitively during the story she talks badly a...