Name Instructor Course Date Due Critical literature paper about “a good man is hard to find” story Flannery O`Connor`s short story “A Good Man is hard to Find” is about a family on vacation which tragically ends as a result of a murderer and his gang intrusion. Grandmother`s insistence for the family to go to Tennessee rather than Florida prompts the family to divert from the main path as they embark on search for some lost treasure that is false. This risky decision makes the family to be befallen by the Misfit. At the beginning of the story there is a foreshadowing hinting the reader that the family is destined to encounter a Misfit on their trip to Florida (Desmond 130). For instance, “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it” (O`connor 45). This a clear forecast of what was envisaged to befall the family towards the end. However, there is an aspect of irony in the story because the Misfit that befalls the family seems to be more of Christian than what the g...