amlit338

amlit338

English 338
January 17, 2006
Prof. Susan M. Schultz


Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find


Some questions to contemplate


1. What is your visceral reaction to the story?

2. What is your intellectual reaction to the story? Explain.

3. Think about names in the story, who has a name and who does not. Consider other names, what they might mean.

4. What is “a good man”? Does your definition of the term change over the course of the story? In what sense could The Misfit be a good man?

5. Find a thick description in the story and think about why it’s so good. O’Connor’s a damn good writer. Think about what she does best.

6. Is the story racist? Why or why not?

7. Think about page 22, the last page. What do you make of it?