in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands

that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored," (Fitzgerald 48). In her Short sstory

"A Good Man is Hard to Find", O'Connor uses an array of literary techniques to portray an array

of meanings. Howeve, it is through O'Connor's use of anagoge in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

where her religious message can be seen. That is to say, though human beings are flawed; they

are sinners, but there is always an opportunity for redemption.

To understand O'Connor's anagogical level, which is a level of a Divine life or spiritual

life in which one participates in, it helps to know a bit of her background (Fitzgerald 111).

O'Connor is a Catholic writer from the South. She says about her beliefs, "I see from the

standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our

Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in its relation to that," (Barnet et al. 297).

This is incorporated in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" where the seven characters (the Misfit,

redeem the Misfit, dies with a smile on her face. The Misfit and the grandmother and all people

not interested in this bribe for he knows that he will take whatever he wants through force. The

test of what a good Christian is all about. The grandmother was facing her own death, yet she

one holds to O'Connor's religious belief system, everyone is equal in sin, everyone has an equal

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