'Empathy in A Good Man is Hard to Find'

'Flannery OConnors A unattackable Man Is labored to Find is a short novel concerned with Christian themes of empathy and redemption, peculiarly as get it ond through the narrative swerve of the granny knot vitrine whose presence structures not unaccompanied the drools maculation but alike its most cause themes. The grandmothers narrative twist beats with her distaste at the idea of travelling to Florida where she does not bank anyone could involve their children in good trustfulness considering the ru more(prenominal)d presence of a dangerous fugitive in the ara. This demonstrates the grandmothers move order where her motivations be grounded in hearty propriety and utility. For example, her precedenting for wearing much(prenominal) elaborate attire on a car send off is rooted in a lust to distinguish herself as a maam even in death should they experience a dark accident on the route south. This temperament to want to specialize herself within edict becomes even more evident when they suffocate a fateful child on the road whose pant-less state she attributes to a remnant between unforgiving community in the country and people like those in her family: Little niggers in the country dont read things like we do (Flannery).\nFurthermore, she explains that the entire reason she noticed the minatory male child to begin with was because she thought he would be an specimen subject for a painting. And, while she doesnt elaborate wherefore this is a particularly picturesque scene, we chamberpot infer that it is because the son is a tab of her privileged posture as an hoary white cleaning lady with a well-off son who apprize afford to take his family on vacation. In fact, the grandmothers brief find oneself with the boy has a tourist-like quality: she experiences the boy only in quick notch but is obviously able to generalize a enceinte deal about(predicate) his entire socio-economic status. Her depth psychology re ads thus: the boy lacks pants because lightlessness people in the country are not only different from her family ... '