Full-text analysis Good people are hard to find.

The full text of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is analyzed as follows:

A Good Man is Hard to Find is one of the most difficult works to interpret and misread by American writer Flannery OConnor. This work reflects the social life of the southern United States in the author's time. By telling the story of a family, the novel makes readers think about the definition of a man while laughing at the characters with distinct personalities. The story conveys a Catholic theological point of view: people are bad, but a leopard cannot change his spots. Only through violence can people be baptized and changed again, as the untimely person at the end of the article said.

Key words: O 'Connor, grandmother, death, religion, violence, coincidence.

About the author: O 'Connor.

"Truth will not change because of our ability to cope." Flannery OConnor is one of the most important American novelists in the 20th century. She writes against the background of southern cultural customs, and her novels are famous for being good at understanding racism, but the theme of her novels is not limited at all, full of various possibilities. In her works, there are intruders, loners and outcasts, and all kinds of contradictory personality factors can also be revealed in the same person.

In her novel Violent Bear it Away, the protagonist tries to be a child of God, but at the same time, she kills and sets fire to people. She is good at different styles and is classified as a southern Gothic writer. However, when she describes the stones on the dark side of human nature, she often leaves redemption, transcending the general absurd role-building, and is good at depicting and depicting human nature in detail. It often has prophetic and prophetic, apocalyptic and supernatural significance.

It is such a writer that his life is very short. At the age of twenty-five, she inherited the family lupus erythematosus and died young in 1964. She thinks that "living around houses and chicken coops will not make exciting products", but some of her works are rated as "very few classics on English writing forms, and she became the first American female writer to be included in the authoritative" American Library "after World War II.

2. Analysis of grandmother's image

Good people are hard to find, which is a typical road novel. It tells the story of a family of six in Georgia driving to Florida. On the way, they met a lone ranger who ran away because of car trouble, and the whole family was killed. My grandmother is undoubtedly the most important role in this story. At the beginning of the story, the selfish grandmother tried to distract the whole family because she was selfish.

When I set out the next day after my failure, I was the first person to get on the bus. The clothes I wore during the trip were in sharp contrast with her daughter-in-law's simple household clothes, and were described as "on a navy blue dress with a small white dot printed on it. Her collar and cuffs are white with lace and look beautiful. She has pinned a purple spray violet on the neckline, which contains a sachet. "And the purpose of this hypocritical old lady is just to ensure that if there is an accident on the road, anyone on the road can judge that the old lady is unusual.

On the way, my grandmother told everyone the story of her youth. A young man who chased himself later made a fortune, mocking that the current generation is worse than the previous generation, and good people are hard to find. But when they met those poor black children on the road, the old woman made fun of them.

Soon they arrived at a rest place. The shopkeeper told his grandmother that several people came to pay the gas bill on credit the other day, but the answer was "because you are a good man" Red Sammy, who only cares about money, seems puzzled and comforts himself. After leaving Red Sammy's residence, a family of six embarked on a journey again, but grandma made up stories to take everyone to the place she wanted to go, but because her cat accidentally knocked over a group of people in a ditch. My grandmother's first reaction was to hope not to blame her for her injury.

Soon someone passed by, and my grandmother shouted out as soon as she heard that she didn't adapt, so that the whole family was killed. She kept praying for the misfit and told him that he was a good man. After her son was killed, she also said that she would make the unsuitable person pray and beg him not to kill her. Even though all the family members were killed in the end, she still said, "Why are you there? One of my children, you are one of my own children". And tried to touch him, but in the end he was shot three times, and there was an inappropriate comment that "if someone keeps shooting at this woman with a gun, she will be a good person."

By reading the full text, we can find that grandma is selfish and hypocritical. The old woman kept covering up her purpose with lies for her own benefit. She despised black children because she was poor and loved the rich, and wore exaggerated clothes to make others think that she was a rich family. Later, it was also the main cause of accidents and even family breakdown.

It should be noted that a good man appeared three times in this book. For the first time, my grandmother said that good men are hard to find, the society has changed greatly, and readers are easy to believe. However, when she appeared for the second time, Red Sam was called a good person by her grandmother just because she was willing to give others credit, which made people begin to doubt her definition of a good person. By the third time, in order to survive, grandma kept instilling the idea that he was a good person in inappropriate people, which showed how shallow and hypocritical her understanding of good people was.

3. Coincidence factors in the story

Coincidentally, there is basically no useless plot in this novel. At the beginning of the novel, the author leads the news of the untimely prison break. Grandma's family was lucky enough to meet her later. At first, grandma said that she was well dressed and had an accident on the way. Others also know that she is a lady and a graveyard. After bidding farewell to Red Sammy, she was mentioned again. Grandma lied that there were all kinds of silverware in it in an attempt to take everyone there, paving the way for meeting inappropriate people.

At the beginning, grandma's cat directly led a delegation to meet an inappropriate person. As for the broken car that Red Sammy complained about without paying money, although the author didn't write it clearly, we can infer from it that it was driven by an untimely person. Therefore, under the blessing of so many coincidences, it is natural to meet people who are out of date.

Four. Violence, death, religion

An English literature professor once asked O 'Connor about the meaning of "a good man is hard to find". She pointed out that Catholicism believes in original sin, and there are many animals and cruel atrocities in the world. Therefore, although some people call her a horror novel or a Gothic novel, she thinks her novels belong to "Catholic realism".

There is no good person in the novel, whether it is a selfish grandmother, two naughty children or a lonely person, which is different from the good side in other works. The ugliness of people is infinitely magnified here. Take the lone ranger as an example. He is not a hopeless villain, but because of all kinds of unfair treatment and distorted personality, he changed his view of the world, became degenerate, did not believe in justice, and was full of hatred for society and others.

Therefore, when grandma touches the misfit with her hand and tries to treat him like a lost lamb, the misfit will kill her immediately like a poisonous snake bite. Violence is the result of lack of spirit after the collapse of religious belief. After World War II, American beliefs collapsed, and the South, which was deeply influenced by traditional ideas, was severely impacted, and people's beliefs were alienated.

Born in Irish Catholic immigrant community, she is more American than Irish and more southerner than American. O 'Connor was deeply influenced by Catholicism since he was a child.

One of O 'Connor's important creative motives is to restore people's faith. 1950, O 'Connor's father died of lupus erythematosus. A few years later, O 'Connor also suffered from lupus erythematosus and stayed on the farm for several years to concentrate on writing. Her firm belief in Catholicism became the pillar of her struggle against disease. She believes that violence is an indispensable factor in life, and religious salvation is achieved through destruction. Death is the end of violence and the way to religious salvation. And these three are indispensable.

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Through careful description, O 'Connor reveals a reality full of social problems to readers. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, we can easily find that many religious metaphors echo the social reality and convey O 'Connor's different thoughts. And this spirit is also worth learning.

References:

1. A probe into the theme of O 'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find Liu Jianguo, School of Foreign Languages, Sanya University.

2. Violence, Death and Redemption-A Religious Interpretation of A Good Man is Hard to Find.

3. Violence, Death and Redemption —— On the theme of A Good Man is Hard to Find Wang Yingchun, School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Normal University.

4. Exploring the soul redemption of the grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find From the perspective of the Bible, Jiang Minrong, School of Foreign Languages, Anhui University.

5. Seeking the conversion of soul —— Interpreting the theme of religious salvation of Wang Chaohui in O 'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find.

6. Warning under the religious cloak of "a good man is hard to find" Ge Chengcheng, School of Foreign Languages, Anhui University

7. Analysis of the image of grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find: Jing Wenqing of Lanzhou Jiaotong University

8. Comparison of the image of Li Liyan's grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find and A Familiar Road.

9. Interpreting zhejiang yuexiu university of foreign languages Shen, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, from a Pragmatic Perspective.