The Power of Good and Evil in A Good Man by Flannery O'Connor is hard to findGood and Evil. Right and wrong. Guilty and innocent. These are just some of the many issues that surround everyone's life. Everyone has their own opinion on certain issues and depends on their own values, judgments and beliefs to overcome difficulties. Flannery O'Connor is quoted as saying, "I see from the point of view of Christian orthodoxy. This means that the meaning of life is centered in our redemption by 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 due to her poor judgment and beliefs, but learns the true meaning of "good" when faced with something "bad". ."Grandma lives with her only son, Bailey, his wife and their children. Story begins Grandma prepares to take a trip with her son's family to Florida; a place she doesn't even want to go. She wants all the family go to Tennessee to visit relatives (O'Connor 907). This is the first example of the self-centered ways that lead to her death. She wants to uproot the entire family, just for her own good there's an escaped convict, an evil man, on the loose. He says, "The Misfit is free from the Federal Pen and headed to Florida and you can read here what he says he did to those people" (O?Connor 907). ) Critic Richard Spivey explains the use of violence in O?Connor's work: "O?Connor dealt with violent and grotesque people because "the man has in his...... middle of paper... ...403.Drake, Roberto. 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 of Georgia Press 1977. 125.Hamblen, Study of Flannery O'Connor University Press 1968. 295-297.McCown. Flannery O'Connor and the Reality of Sin in the Catholic World Harper's Anthology of Fiction. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, New York, 1991. Stephens, Martha, 1973. 189-205.