When someone compares any two stories, we must contrast them as well. The main character in both "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," by Flannery O'Connor have many things in common, but just as they have many things in common they are also very different. Emily, from "A Rose for Emily" and the Grandmother, from "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" are very used to getting their way, and when they don't things turn for the worst and they try everything to ensure that they get what they want.
             The Grandmother wants to convince her son Bailey, to go to her home state of Tennessee rather than to Florida for a vacation, her excuse being her grandchildren have already been to Florida but never to Tennessee. She fails miserably and the grandmother ends up sitting in the backseat with her two bratty grandchildren and a hidden cat on her lap. While Emily, was a spoiled over protected person who would literally kill to ensure she gets her way. She doesn't like the idea of being alone, and when she is almost deserted by the man she loves, she murders him.
             However, the Grandmother would never turn to murder; her conscience wouldn't allow it, but that doesn't stop her from manipulating people to do what she wants them to do. In "A Rose for Emily," Emily feels she shouldn't have to manipulate anyone to do anything, because she is a Grierson and at one point in time the Grierson's had a lot of clout in her town.
             Another comparison you can find is that both characters do not work well with change. For instance, in "A Rose for Emily," when her father dies, she refuses to acknowledge that he is deceased. Women from the town attempt to condole her but she is in denial that he is gone, and refuses to give up the corpse. After three days she comes to her senses and turns the body in for burial. Another example of how she do...