Polite Society Gone with the Wind in A Good Man is Hard to Find :: A Good Man is Hard to Find

Polite Society G one with the Wind in A Good manhood is Hard to Find   A Good Man is Hard to Find is consistent with Mary Flannery OConnors view that contemporary baseball club was drastically changing for the worse. OConnors obvious displeasure with society at the clip has often been attri howevered to her Catholic religion, her studies in the social science field, and the fact that the celebrate lifestyles of the elite southern whites were Gone with the Wind. Evidence of societys demise is woven into the story, and presented finished an interesting generation gap.   The gran is representative of godliness and Christianity which OConnor apparently believed to be more prevalent in the glamorous Old South The middle-aged woman settled herself comfortably, removing her white cotton gloves and putting them up with her purse on the shelf in front of the back window. The childrens mother be quiet had on slacks and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief but the grandmother had on a navy blue blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collar and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace, and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would have intercourse at once she was a lady. (2148) The parents pay little attention to the grandmother and when they do, they are often quite rude. The unruly children are representative of the breakdown of respect, and discipline, and are consequently a forecast of future generations. The Misfit represents evil. At one point the Misfit likens himself to Christ, in that they both were punished for crimes they did not commit. Christ accepted death for the sins of all people, however, and not only did the Misfit not do that, but he also killed other innocent people.   Near the end of the ordeal, the grandmother recog nizes the shirt the Misfit has put on as her sons shirt.