Blog #3 - A good man is hard to find

1. Having reviewed the lecture on O’Connor, explain why you think recognizing and understanding the concept of the grotesque is important to understand and more fully appreciate the texts.

It is important to understand the concept of the grotesque to more fully understand the text because if the reader does not understand the meaning behind the text the story would just seem weird with no real meaning. For instance in A good man is hard to find, the story would seem like something is missing, it would seem like it was just bad luck for this family to find them selves face to face with "the misfit" however there is more to it than just bad luck. There is a lot of little clues as the story builds that is there for the reader to catch to fully understand the text. Noticing these clues will help tie in the story all together to what the true meaning is.

3. Discuss the title of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” – how does it relate to the story? Does this title provide a particular kind of insight into the text?

The title relates to the story in a couple ways. First of all the grandma talks about the time when she was young and how people were more respectful back then through out half of the story. The title relates to this part of the story by showing how now a days men, or people in general, are not as respectful as they were in the past, it shows how everything changes as time passes by. Also, in the second half of the story the title relates by introducing the criminal, or "the misfit", to the story and reinforces what the grandmother had been talking about the whole time. I don't think the title necessarily provides an insight into the text. Obviously after reading the story it makes sense but prior to reading the story I thought the story was going to be about a single woman trying to find a "good man" to marry, and this was not the case at all.