Flannery O'Conner and the use of grotesque character in "Good country people" and "a good man is hard to find"

"The representation of the grotesque is a characteristic of much 20th century writing" (Holman 61). Almost all of O'Connor's short stories usually end in horrendous, freak fatalities or, at the very least, a character's emotional devastation. People have categorized O'Connor's work as "Southern Gothic" (Walters 30). In Many of her short stories, A Good Man Is Hard To Find for example, Flannery O'Connor creates grotesque characters to illustrate the evil in people. Written in 1953, A Good Man …

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