“A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a Southern Gothic short story written in 1953 by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) in a which portrays the unfortunate end of a family's trip to Florida. Flannery O'Connor was raised Roman Catholic in the Bible Belt of the United States, which significantly influenced her purpose and writing style toward themes of religious revelation and journey (Flannery). This short story is a typical Foster quest story in that the family is unaware that they are on a mission, but during their aborted journey to Florida, they learn more about themselves and others than they ever could have learned at home They. -state of Georgia (Foster). Style is the way an author chooses to write to their audience (“Style”). The style reveals a lot about the writer's personality and through “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, Flannery O'Connor reveals her desire to convey the grace of God and religion in everyday life through religious symbols in the characters and their actions. The plot of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” features a family in Georgia in the mid-to-late 1900s with an eccentric grandmother, the stubborn and religious protagonist, who decided that instead of going in Florida, the family would go to East Tennessee. Despite her grandmother's pleas not to go to Florida after reading about the Misfit, the antagonist, who was an escaped convict, the family would not comply with her grandmother's wishes. To compromise, Bailey, the cowardly son of the grandmother who was driving the car, and Bailey's wife decided to take a detour to an abandoned house that the grandmother had told the rude and obnoxious boys, John Wesley and June Star about. . Grandma panics after realizing the... middle of paper......ly when she tries to claim it as her own, which is why the Misfit killed Grandma. The Misfit is “imprisoned in a web of necessity from which he cannot extricate himself… he suffers the same fate” (Renner 131). This is due to the fact that he does not observe a governing body and consequently believes that there is no moral order in the world. Overall, O'Connor's use of religious symbols as a literary device conveyed the message to readers of Christianity and Christianity. The Grace of God. Critics have seen his work as having profound and thought-provoking messages. It is clear that O'Connor attempted to accommodate readers of both Christian and non-Christian faiths by purchasing the painting of a picture in a way that almost everyone could understand. His lack of secular censorship in his work along with the vivid characters helped bring new perspectives on grace, crime and religion..