Flannery O'Connor is known for her brilliant use of irony in her stories. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is one of her superb literary works in which she proves her point by ending her stories in a dramatic, lucrative way. O'Connor's motive in writing this story is pretty clear in the title, but she also ... are concerned with other people's suffering and not your own." In this quotation we can see the moral message O'Connor was attempting to convey in her stories, and through further analysis of the work this fact can be more clearly illustrated. In the first story, A Good Man is Hard to Find...

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