O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find

I didn't find this story particularly relatable. While the beginning was a little confusing, with its mentioning of five or six different character names at once, the end kept me at my toes wanting to know what happens next. I thought this piece was fundamentally about what it means to be good and if there is good left in out world. According to Red Sam,  there aren't any people in this world that you can trust. She agrees upon this idea, but I think she still believes that you can find a good man. When the grandmother is talking with the Misfit, she says that there must be some good inside of him, regardless of what he has done. Because she still has faith in such an absurd man, this raises the question of whether being good is a matter of having a good upbringing, or good blood, which he could have had, or whether being good has to do with ones current actions. The grandmother, in an attempt to save her own life, brings up praying to Jesus in the hope that she can appeal to the Misfit's religious sense. By using religion to bring out the good in people, Flannery is saying that being religious may determine if a person is good or not. To address the title of this piece, I think its message is literal. As I mentioned earlier, people are increasingly beginning to believe that good people are hard to find and that you can't trust anyone. I looked up the expression  A good man is hard to find  and its part of a song which is followed by the lyric You always get the other kind. This song came out before this story was written and I think its proceeding lyric strands true with the message of the story. 

-s.sacks