The Power of Good and Evil in A Good Man by Flannery O'Connor is hard to findGood and Evil. Good and evil. Guilty and innocent. These are just a few of the many themes that surround everyone's life. Everyone has their own opinion on certain issues and depends on their values, judgment and beliefs to overcome their difficulties. Flannery O'Connor was quoted as saying: “I see it from the point of view of Christian orthodoxy. This means that the meaning of life is centered on our Redemption through Christ and that what I see in the world, I see in relation to that” (Contemporary Authors 402). ). These themes are present in O'Connor's story "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The story is about a grandmother, a "good" woman who goes on vacation with her son and his family and suffers terribly because of her poor judgment and beliefs, but learns the true meaning of "good" face to something "bad". "The grandmother lives with her only son, Bailey, his wife and their children. The beginning of the story: The grandmother is preparing to go on a trip with her son's family to Florida; a place where she doesn't even want to go. She wants the whole family to go to Tennessee to visit relatives (O? Connor 907). only for her benefit. She also doesn't want to go to Florida because there's an escaped convict, a bad man, on the loose. She says, "The Misfit walked away from the federal penitentiary and headed over." Florida and you read here what he did to these people" (O?Connor 907). Critic Richard Spivey explains the use of violence in O'Connor's work: "O'Connor was dealing with it. violent and grotesque people because "man has in his...... middle of paper ......403.Drake, Robert. "The crazy bleeding and stinking shadow of Jesus in fiction by Flannery O'Connor. Comparative literature studies. University of Illinois. 1966. Vol. 3. 183-196.Gilbert, Muller, H. Nightmares and visions. Flannery O'Connor and the Catholic Grotesque. University Press. University of Georgia Press. 1977. 125. Hamblen, Abigail Ann Flannery? s Study of Innocence and Evil, University of Mississippi. Flannery O'Connor and the reality of sin in the Catholic world. Missionary Society of St. Paul, NY 1959. Vol. 188. O'Connor, Flannery. “A good man is hard to find.” Harper Anthology of Fiction Ed. Sylvan Barnet New York, 1991. Stephens, Martha. Flannery O'Connor's question., 1973. 189-205.