The Moral Structure of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography
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Annotated Bibliography
Bonney, William. "The Moral Structure of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find," Studies in Short Fiction. 27(3). Summer, 1990. 347-357.
O'Connor presents a moral structure in his story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," which is based on characters who connote the behavioral extremes of mythic Jesus who both brought a sword and redeemed by dying. It follows that the characters pursue lives as ethical or social outcasts, only showing flashes of moral awareness, which never comes to fruition. These ethical items will properly guide the research by identifying the right and proper concepts to mention in the essay.
Bryant, Hallman. Reading the Map in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find.' Studies in Short Fiction. 18. 1981, 301-107.
The choice of settings in which O'Connor's story alludes to towns and various places for two reasons, to foreshadow and secondly to augment the theme of the story. Since most of these places are recognizable in reality, except one of them, it is possible to measure actual distances over which the family travels, and referring to Southern America. This will b...