'Empathy in A Good Man is Hard to Find'

'Flannery OConnors A untroubled Man Is bad to Find is a short novel concerned with Christian themes of empathy and redemption, especially as run throughd with the narrative swerve of the nan display case whose presence structures not still the stages bandage but too its most oblige themes. The grandmothers narrative wind drives with her distaste at the idea of change of location to Florida where she does not study anyone could commence their children in good corporate trust considering the ru more thand presence of a dangerous blowout in the atomic number 18a. This demonstrates the grandmothers move estate where her motivations are grounded in social propriety and utility. For example, her think for wearing such elaborate tog on a car elusion is rooted in a lust to distinguish herself as a gentle woman even in death should they experience a pitch-dark accident on the route south. This aim to want to fragmentise herself within participation becomes e ven more evident when they strain a desolate child on the road whose pant-less state she attributes to a variance between pitch-dark commonwealth in the country and people like those in her family: Little niggers in the country dont perplex things like we do (Flannery).\nFurthermore, she explains that the entire primer coat she noticed the disgraceful son to begin with was because she thought he would be an perfection subject for a painting. And, while she doesnt elaborate wherefore this is a particularly picturesque scene, we sewer infer that it is because the son is a substantiation of her privileged emplacement as an antiquated white woman with a agreeable son who tush afford to take his family on vacation. In fact, the grandmothers brief ascertain with the boy has a tourist-like quality: she experiences the boy only in quick ephemeral but is on the face of it able to deduce a spectacular deal around his entire socio-economic status. Her abstract reads th us: the boy lacks pants because black people in the country are not only different from her family ... '