A Good Man Is Hard And Find By Flannery O Connor And The...

Literary criticism refers to the study of how literature is evaluated and interpreted. Literature is a common aspect of the life of scholars, and we need to understand and then evaluate the texts we read to get the intended message. There are a number of literary criticism theories that can be used in evaluating literature work. The different theories are applicable differently depending on the text in question. For instance, the feminist criticism theory is a theory that is used to analyze texts that have a gender imbalance as the major theme. These are theories that are guarded by feminism as the common factor. They could be evident in economics, social and political life. This paper will analyze two texts â€Å"A Good Man Is Hard to Find† by†¦show more content†¦In helping them, The Misfit kills the whole family despite the grandmother trying to convince him that he is a good man. Applying the feminist criticism can be said that the story has an aspect of feminism. Initially, the female character is not named in the story, and the prerogative of naming is given to the male characters. Female characters are called The Grandmother, the children s mother and the woman. The only female character having name was a kid, June Star. In comparison, Even a small male character was given a specific name, such as the Misfit s follower, Hiram and Bobby Lee; and Red San, who owned The Tower Filling Station. At the beginning of the story the female characters show that women were not treated as equal to men. Throughout the story, male domination is evident. First, the father did not listen or did not take the grandmother seriously when she told the story of The Misfit and the reasons she was against a trip to Florida. He made sure that his choice dominated. It actually did since they went to Florida as he wanted. He did not respect his mother, due to the patriarchal view all ows him to see the grandmother was subservient to man. Also John Wesley did the same things as a boy, talk he likes to the grandmother since his male status lets him to not regard the grandmother as an equal. Secondly, When O Connor depicts the Grandmother s living