About Flannery O'Connor:
http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/rare_1959_audio_flannery_oconnor_reads_a_good_man_is_hard_to_find.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weaQE0__v2g
1. What qualities of the grandmother do you like? What qualities do
you dislike? How did you feel when The Misfit killed her? Why?
2. How would you characterize the other members of the family? What
is the function of images like the following: the mother's "face was
as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green head-kerchief
that had two points on the top like a rabbit's ears" and the grandmother's
"big black valise looked like the head of a hippopotamus"?
3. How does O'Connor foreshadow the encounter with The Misfit?
4. What does the grandmother mean by a "good man"? Whom does
she consider good people? What are other possible meanings of "good"?
Why does she tell The Misfit that he's a good man? Is there any sense in
which he is?
5. What is the significance of the discussion of Jesus? Was he a good
man?
6. What is the significance of the grandmother's saying, "Why you're
one of my babies. You're one of my own children"?
7. What is the significance of The Misfit's saying, "She would
of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute
of her life"?
There are, of course, no absolute answers to these questions; the story
resists easy solutions, violates the reader's expectations.
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