Foreshadowing in Flannery O Connors A Good Man Is Hard...

Foreshadowing in Flannery O Connors A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O Connor, a native of Georgia was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. As a strict Catholic, O Connor often displayed a sense of spiritual corruption within the characters in most of her stories. One of O Connors famous stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, reveals the image of spiritual deficiency inherent in the characters which foreshadowed a bloody end. The grandmother communicated the warning of the Misfit, but her activities itself were various signs of foreshadowing of the end approaching. The grandmother warned about the Misfit in the first paragraph of the story: `Here this fellow calls himself the Misfit is loose from†¦show more content†¦There were about six graves fenced, which was a factor indicating foreshadowing. And when John Wesley asked about where the plantation was, the grandmother replied, Gone With the Wind, which was foretelling their demise. Red Sammy also narrated about Two fellers come in here last week in an old beat up car. These people were the Misfits goons, and they were offered free gasoline from Red Sammys store, probably because of his fear that he was dealing with notorious killers. Red Sammys wife also gave a warning by saying, I wouldnt be a bit surprised if he didnt attact this place right here. This was a self-explanatory caution signal give by the store owners which was ignored. The famil y was in a town named as Toombsboro, which name itself was a sign of foreshadowing. When the Misfit arrived with his gang, he gave a few hints to his victims indicating their brutal death. The Misfit arrived in a vehicle described as ....a big black battered hearse-like automobile. The hearse, which is a vehicle carrying the dead, was the Misfits vehicle which conveyed the message that he was going to kill the family. Another interesting imagery was when the grandmother asked the Misfit, `What did you do to get sent to the penitentiary that first time? His answer further foreshadowed the death of the family. He said, `Turn to the right, itShow MoreRelatedGothic Fiction Genre in Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and Flannery O’ Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find571 Words   |  2 Pagesnarrator confesses a love for an old man who he then violently murders and dismembers. The narrator reveals his madness by attempting to separate the person of the old man, which he loves, from the old man’s supposedly evil eye, which triggers the narrator†™s hatred. This dark, spooky and eerie tale has a distinct style the Poe is heavily known. The abhorrence that the narrator had for the old man’s evil eye pushed the narrator to his end, and caused him to kill the poor man. Everything became even worse