A Good Man Is Hard To Find - A Short Story Analysis

This is an audio book of A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, but it also includes some commentary and analysis of the story. Here is a partial list of some of the topics that we touch on in this video: 02:05 -- The family and the character of the Grandmother 04:05 -- The narrator and Free Indirect Discourse 08:00 -- Sentimentalism and Sentimentality of the Grandmother 14:24 -- "a good man is hard to find" 17:28 -- The grandmother is manipulative. 19:43 -- O'Connor's unique writing style 21:03 -- Artificial externals and interior truth 23:11 -- the arrival and description of The Misfit 26:43 -- The importance of repetition, parallels between the Misfit and monkey, and personification 30:56 -- The Misfit is like Jesus, and he isn't at all, and some symbolic foreshadowing, and manners 35:18 -- The Misfit and the human condition, and Christian sentimentalism 39:26 -- The Misfit's reflections on Jesus, two false paths to salvation, and Redemption 41:08 -- "What are we going to do with Jesus?" (two responses) 43:00 -- The grandmother ceases to be sentimental. 45:05 -- the grandmother's happy ending and her moment of grace