A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor

[Luke]

A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor, 1948-1955 (1976), United States, SHORT STORIES

"...One of the powers in her writing lies in her ability to make the vulnerability of one into that of many; another is her mastery of shifting "control" from character to character, making outcomes uncertain. Sexual and racial attitudes, conditions of poverty and wealth, and the passages of adolescence, old age, and being thirty-four (which "wasn't any age at all") are only some of the issues touched on in this collection..."

(H.S., p. 217)

Review Cache
Algernon
Brina (titular short story only)
Kathleen (titular short story only)

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

I was wondering into which category her stories fit. Observations is good, also mother / daughter relationships, race, a sense of place, and many more.

here is my review : A Good Man

[Luke]

Thank you for your review, Algernon. It has been incorporated above. As for theme, I would agree with the multifarious categories she touches upon. However, given her keen ferocity of insight, I'd likely make the same choice of Observations as the authors of this book did.

[Algernon (Darth Anyan)]

thanks for the explanation, I was not sure how the categories were chosen.

[Luke]

The reviews I post snippets from usually explicate the reasons for the choice of themes, so you can see for yourself if you acquire a copy.

[Luke]

Ugh, the title says only the titular story and the summary says a collection. Anyone who's reviewed this in some form, go for it. The 500 GBBW people want to have their cake and eat it too.

[Brina]

My review of the short story only. There are editions with just the story and some as a collection of stories.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kathleen]

I read a copy that included only that story but with some analytical extras. My review: ttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1466443...

[Luke]

What a nice coincidence that this came up as one of the daily 500 GBBWs I'm catching up on. Certainly saved me some time.

[Lyana]

I'm not the only one that thinks she writes actual black people horribly, though, right?

[Luke]

Lyana wrote: "I'm not the only one that thinks she writes actual black people horribly, though, right?"

Not at all. Indeed, I'll have to reread her at some point, as my critical faculties in that respect were not honed well enough during the period I wrote my review.