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Being self-centered and selfish often brings negativity to someone's life. This negativity brings experiences that are supposed to teach selfish people a lesson, and they are not always enjoyable experiences. Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find uses the grandmother to portray the dangers that selfishness, manipulation, and arrogance can bring to oneself and the surrounding people. Her character's arrogance ... ...
... have become a genius of the stature of George Eliot or Jane Austin or Eudora Wharton. Her achievement is substantial and undeniable, but as in the case of her Southern contemporary Flannery O"Connor, we are continually haunted by the sense of what might have been had she lived long enough to consolidate her powers and to mature even more richly her artistry ... ...