1. A Good Man is Hard to Find
- The title of the story refers to a conversation the grandmother has in the story with Red Sammy.
- "It isnt a soul in this green world of God's that you can trust."
- "I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more."
- The grandmother and Red Sammy discuss old, "better" times.
- Flannery O' Connor seems to constantly glorify the past throughout the story
- Flannery O' Connor seems to constantly glorify the past throughout the story
- When the grandmother has her horrible thought that she has been "vividly" describing the wrong place, it leads to the downfall of the entire story when the family gets into a car accident. Right before the grandmother comes to the realization that the house was in Tennessee, the past is again glorified when she remembers when there were "no paved roads and thirty miles was a day's journey."
2. The Trespasser
- Juxtaposition between the daughter and the trespasser
- both young girls that have so much in common, but also are so different.
- Bonnie Jo Campbell makes the reader feel sympathy for the trespasser
- everything that the trespasser represents is exactly what the daughter has had her parents to protect her from
- "It is the teenaged daughter, the swimmer, the honor student, who discovers her own missing mattress on the river-side porch..."
- Why does Campbell list these things about the daughter? What is the significance?
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