In "A Good Man Is hard to Find," Flannery O'Conner really puts the reader in the middle class mode and throws a little religion at us. By this I mean that she takes us to an important part of her mind and soul. One could even say that she lets the Devil come out in her own little way.
In reading " A Good Man is Hard to Find," we find ourselves in a setting of a lower middle class family with a dominant mother, annoying grandmother and a whinny mother-in-law. I tend to believe that she is to be the main character. The grandmother is representative of godliness and Christianity. However just from this one story I get the feeling that she could be telling of the changes that took place in the US after W.W. II when violence began to grow rapidly. Women were coming home from the war, and men were demanding their voting rights. In the 50's crime was on everyone's mind, on television and in the moon. O'Connor's knew taht society was drastically changing for the worse, and she probably knew that one day we'd end with something liek the Internet with all its pornos. O'Connor's displeasure with society at the time could have been attributed to strong belief in G
If I look at the quote from O'Conner "My subject in fiction is the action in theory is held largely by the devil" I strongly feel she was talking about this particular story. O'Conner portrayed the grandmother as a God fearing woman and the "Misfit" as the tyranny of all evil. Maybe O'Conner was trying to tell us that It doesn't matter what kind of life you lead , or what kind of religion you accept if you push the issue it will blow-up in your face.
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