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From: Studies in Short Fiction[(essay date winter 1996) In the following essay, Bandy disputes O'Connor's interpretation of her short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" as one not of grace and salvation, but rather deeply pessimistic and contrary to...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is an educator and the coordinator of the undergraduate writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses O'Connor's story as a strong example of the author's...
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From: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature[(essay date summer 2000) In the following essay, Fike explores the moral and spiritual significance of O'Connor's allusion to Paul's epistles to Timothy in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," as well as demonstrates how the...
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From: Sewanee Writers on Writing[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Prunty compares the treatment of despair in "A Wife of Nashville" to that in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."] In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to...
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From: The Georgia Review[(essay date 1967) In the following essay, Driskell asserts that O'Connor's substitution of "Parker's Back" for "The Partridge Festival" in Everything That Rises Must Converge contributes to the thematic unity of the...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date spring 2005) In the following essay, Steed applies philosopher Henri Bergson's theory of laughter to "Good Country People" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," stressing the inflexibility of O'Connor's humorous...
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From: Logos[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Marzec argues that O’Connor believed that no one, no matter his or her degeneracy, is beyond the reach of God’s grace, and that in “The Artificial Nigger” she uses Mr. Head’s...
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From: Flannery O'Connor Review[(essay date 2006) In this essay, Hewitt compares Viramontes's "Cariboo Cafe" with Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," noting their shared use of violence to portray the transcendence of maternal love.]...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Harris argues that Hulga Hopewell’s utterance of the titular cliché at the end of “Good Country People” demonstrates how phrases gather emotional resonance through repetition in...
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From: Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Sykes reads “The Artificial Nigger” as a story about the related sins of pride and racism. He points out that in the three encounters with Blacks in the story, Mr. Head and...
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From: Explicator[(essay date fall 2006) In the following essay, Keil comments on the subtle references to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."] Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,...
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From: Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Haddox uses the theories of American literary scholar Walter Benn Michaels and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek to analyze universalist themes in O’Connor’s short fiction.]...
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From: Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Wood asserts that “Good Country People” is fundamentally uplifting because events in the story demonstrate to Hulga Hopewell the dangers of nihilism, thereby giving her a chance...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionFlannery O'Connor claimed always to center her fiction on the extraordinary moments of God's grace, when it touches even the most maimed, deformed, or unregenerate of people—especially those; proper Christian literature,...
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From: Shenandoah[(essay date fall 1996) In the following essay, Prunty investigates the role of vacancy in the stories of Peter Taylor and O'Connor.] In Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," the grandmother is the first to...
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Bayless and Redmon demonstrate that the film version of No Country for Old Men “depends on an unacknowledged source”: Flannery O’Connor’s 1953 short story “A Good Man Is Hard to...
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From: Massachusetts Review[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Kahane analyzes O’Connor’s use of the “nigger” figure in her fiction, arguing that the author’s portrayal of Black characters is complex. While O’Connor often portrays Black...
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From: Flannery O’Connor Review[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Smith analyzes images of clothing and their relationship to gender identity in two stories from Everything That Rises Must Converge, “Revelation” and “Everything That Rises Must...
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From: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, the authors discuss how faithfully the film version of No Country for Old Men reflects the novel, noting that the screenwriters were influenced by O’Connor’s story “A Good Man...
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From: Flannery O’Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and Grace[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, O’Gorman compares violent images in O’Connor’s short stories and her novel The Violent Bear It Away with those in McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men (2005) and Blood Meridian...