Blog Questions 5 and 3

Question 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 first thing that came to mind when I read the title "A Good Man is Hard to Find", was that was this was going to be a story written in a feminist approach about a woman looking for love in all the wrong places. Far off of what I anticipated, the second hand view of this grandmothers take on a negative society is not quite what I expected by reading the title. The characters are all mostly portrayed as bad people hiding behind a façade of a sliver of goodness, some of which is more evident than others. The title is well written because it gives no insight to what the story is about, and can force the reader to be able to understand what is going on.

Question 5

How did/does Martha Stevens’s reading of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (From The Question of Flannery O’Connor influence your own reading and understanding of the story? What did you make of/presume about the story before reading any criticism?

Martha Steven's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" From The Question of Flannery O’Connor can give the reader a different perspective on the material by the way she connects the family and the grandmother. Steven's does a good job in the description of the characters by touching on the important things that the grandmother and the family have in common. The stories main point is about the massacre of family by a misfit, but in the midst of what is going on, it's evident that the grandmother had much in common with the family.