A Good Man Is Hard to Find

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Southern Gothic literature short story short story collection work of fiction

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a classic short story by Flannery O’Connor that exemplifies Southern Gothic fiction through its dark humor, moral ambiguity, and violent exploration of grace and redemption in the American South.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Southern Gothic literature ⓘ
short story ⓘ
short story collection ⓘ
work of fiction ⓘ
author Flannery O'Connor ⓘ
surface form: Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O'Connor ⓘ
surface form: Flannery O’Connor
collectedIn A Good Man Is Hard to Find self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
criticalReputation classic of American short fiction ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1953 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Avon’s Modern Writing I anthology ⓘ
frequentlyAnthologized true ⓘ
genre Christian fiction ⓘ
Southern Gothic ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryDevice foreshadowing ⓘ
grotesque characterization ⓘ
irony ⓘ
symbolism ⓘ
literaryMovement Southern Gothic ⓘ
mainCharacter Bailey ⓘ
Bailey’s wife ⓘ
John Wesley ⓘ
June Star ⓘ
the Misfit ⓘ
the baby ⓘ
the grandmother ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person limited ⓘ
publicationYear 1955 ⓘ
religiousContext Roman Catholic worldview ⓘ
setting a family road trip to Florida ⓘ
settingCountry United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
settingRegion Southern United States ⓘ
surface form: American South
studiedIn American literature courses ⓘ
Southern studies courses ⓘ
religion and literature courses ⓘ
theme grace ⓘ
hypocrisy ⓘ
moral ambiguity ⓘ
redemption ⓘ
religious faith ⓘ
sin ⓘ
the nature of goodness ⓘ
violence ⓘ
tone darkly comic ⓘ
grim ⓘ
ironic ⓘ

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find → collectedIn → A Good Man Is Hard to Find self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor → notableWork → A Good Man Is Hard to Find ⓘ
Flannery → notableWork → A Good Man Is Hard to Find ⓘ
subject surface form: Flannery O'Connor
Mary → notableWork → A Good Man Is Hard to Find ⓘ
subject surface form: Mary Flannery O'Connor