A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

“You can’t indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment,” she writes in an essay in Mystery and Manners.

The Christian novelist is distinguished from his pagan colleagues by recognizing sin as sin.

One reason a great deal of our contemporary fiction is humorless is because so many of these writers are relativists and have to be continually justifying the actions of their characters on a sliding scale of values.