Okay, I'll admit that I didn't intend for the title of this to actually affect what I was going to write. But, I figured that comparing the two stories based on how I saw them and the author's intention was better than summarizing the plots. Less boring.
Anyhow, I enjoyed reading both of these stories. If there was a story to suggest, I would have gone with A Good Man Is Hard To Find. I suppose I find this story more fascinating than Good Country People because it was far more easy to comprehend (I feel bad for saying that) and it was more interesting plot-wise. I understand the message that O' Connor was trying to get across in Good Country People, but I found it boring and not particularly fitting. It was just kind of strange and awkward.
In A Good Man Is Hard To Find, I wasn't surprised at all to see that the old man was, in fact, the Misfit. I found that was one of the problems to O' Conner's stories- they were both fairly predictable. I knew that Hulga was being tricked in Good Country People, and I knew that the old man was the Misfit in A Good Man Is Hard To Find. I didn't know, however, that the family was going to be killed.
Is it bad that I liked when the grandmother died at the end? Well, I didn't like it- I don't like it when anyone dies ever- I just found her particularly annoying and hypocritical. Perhaps that was the author's intention- to allow the audience to view the world like the Misfit does. Which is why we weren't unbelievably sympathetic when the family was murdered.
BREAKTHROUGH?
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