Mistrust, religion, dysfunctional families, and death are all topics that come up at one time or another during Fannery O'Connor's symbolic tales "Good Country People"� and "A Good Man is Hard to Find"�. "Good Country People"� is a story about a simple mother, her 30 year old daughter who likes being miserable, and the man that steals her leg and teachers her a lesson in life. "A Good Man is Hard to Find"� is a story about a dysfunctional family who goes on vacation and are killed on the way there by an escaped convict named the Misfit. Flannery O'Connor's GCP and GMHF, although they may seem different, have very common traits within them including the setting, the characters and the structure.
"Good Country People"� and "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"� both have very similar settings in their stories.
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English: Childhood home of American author Flanner...First off, both take place in the South. "I see you ain't many of them figs you put up last summer"� (2112) is said by Mrs. Freeman in GCP and shows the southern kind of talk that takes place in the story. "I wouldn't talk about my native state that way. Tennessee has the mountains and Georgia has the Hills"� (118) is said by the grandmother from GMHF in response to her grandson making fun of Georgia. This obviously shows that the story takes place in the South. Another common trait of GCP and GMHF is that they both happen in the past. Flannery O'Connor wrote both of these stories in the 1950's and they were considered modern stories of the time. The last thing that the two stories have in common is that they both take place in a rural area. "Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman, who were...