Do evil change people from good to bad or is it people that make them a monster ?
The story “a goodman is hard to find by Flanders O’ Connor is about a grandmother that believes that she shouldn’t be killed because she’s a lady. For the grandmother a good man means having the same values she has. She believes in Jesus , and thinks that even if you do bad in this world you will still go to heaven. Which applies to her, since she’s a very selfish person. Who manipulate her son and lies to her grandchildren. And when she’s confronted by the misfit in the woods after the car accident, she don’t even please for the life of her family. The misfit is a man who believe that nothing in this world is pleasure. And since the grandmother is one evil person she trigger the misfit to become the misfit and do what he does to people. Which is basically taking the evil road. This story is told in the limited omniscient in describing the thoughts of the main characters. The main theme is about the goodness in a man. It symbolize the loss of innocence when the misfit is judge and charge of things and then proven guilty.
This story is similar to young goodman brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the way that young goodman brown is a goodman who believe in Jesus and the people and is pull into the evil. This story take place in the woods which is why it’s also similar to “a goodman is hard to find” . We also know that this story is told in the third person limited omniscient. We can also compare the theme of young goodman brown being a good man. And symbolism of a goodman loss of innocence. Overall these two stories are very similar after all.