Psychoanalytical Theory Assignment (Essay Sample)

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Psychoanalytical Theory
A Good Man Is Hard to Find' is a brief narrative written in 1953 by Flannery O'Connor. It is comprises of violent action with comically, carefully drawn characters and a philosophy that highlights a grandmother's devout Roman Catholic belief.
Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers whose subjects are the duality of the Deep South and her Catholic faith. O'Connor once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over into misfortune, violence and despair. O`Connor has the best stories ever for instance "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and also the "Revelation." First the story of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" actually depicts the heartless murder of a family that was undertaken by group of absconded convicts that were led by a notorious killer by name Misfit. The story is widely known for its religious phases particularly for portraying salvation through an appalling mostly fierce involvement undergone by characters that are physically or spiritually grotesque.
According to Neil (136) the story of revelation is about O`Connor`s southern upbringing. This is when Southerners were actually prejudiced towards people of other races and their lifestyles. It was their belief that the less fortunate people were so inferior to them. This brought discrimination in all sectors leading to grouping people in to different classes.
The stories plot and major characters
The opening statement in the story of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" introduces people to unappealing family: a manipulating and a vain grandmother; her passive baby and wife, her son Bailey and their difficult children, John Wesley and June Star. Grandma was so racist simply because she was a southern wh...