Short Stories - A Good Man is Hard To Find/The Life You Save May Be Your Own
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Join us for a one-off meetup where we discuss two short stories written by the queen of Southern Gothic, Flannery O’Connor!
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
When Tom Shiftlet arrives on a farm owned by an old woman and her deaf daughter, he is at first only interested in finding a place to stay in exchange for work. However, when the old woman offers her daughter Lucynell to him in marriage, along with a sum of money, he accepts, though his intentions towards the girl remain unclear.
Both of these stories are widely available for free online and were published together in O’Connor’s first book. Feel free to read more Flannery O’Connor, either from the same anthology or from her collected works!
Short Stories - A Good Man is Hard To Find/The Life You Save May Be Your Own