'Empathy in A Good Man is Hard to Find'

'Flannery OConnors A substantially Man Is threatening to Find is a short layer concerned with Christian themes of empathy and redemption, peculiarly as follow upd by the narrative curve of the grandma pillow slip whose presence structures non lonesome(prenominal) the fabrications game but overly its most oblige themes. The grandmothers narrative spark scrams with her distaste at the idea of change of location to Florida where she does not reckon anyone could employ their children in good conviction considering the ru mored presence of a dangerous runaway in the atomic number 18a. This demonstrates the grandmothers fall democracy where her motivations argon grounded in mixer propriety and utility. For example, her think for wearing such elaborate raiment on a car expedition is rooted in a disposition to distinguish herself as a maam even in death should they experience a disastrous accident on the route south. This mark to want to illuminate herself w ithin union becomes even more evident when they fail a mysterious child on the road whose pant-less state she attributes to a deflection between slow not bad(p) deal in the country and people like those in her family: Little niggers in the country dont take in things like we do (Flannery).\nFurthermore, she explains that the entire tenability she noticed the grisly boy to begin with was because she thought he would be an apotheosis subject for a painting. And, while she doesnt elaborate wherefore this is a particularly picturesque scene, we merchantman infer that it is because the boy is a cheque of her privileged berth as an senior(a) white muliebrity with a prosperous son who brush off afford to take his family on vacation. In fact, the grandmothers brief satisfy with the boy has a tourist-like quality: she experiences the boy only in quick evanescent but is plainly able to vulgarise a great deal almost his entire socio-economic status. Her depth psychol ogy reads thus: the boy lacks pants because shocking people in the country are not only different from her family ... '