Friday, April 1, 2011
April 4-8
Flannery O'Connor 1. Does "A Good Man is Hard to Find" seem like a genuine story, or is the plot too coincidental? Are the characters and events believable? 2. If this story is an allegory, what do the Misfit and the grandmother (for whom other, more specific names are never specified) represent? 3. At the end of "Good Country People," Hulga appears to be a likely candidate to "cherish the world at the same time that [she struggles] to endure it." Explain how and why this change comes about.
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I think the plot was slightly to coincidental, but for stories to be interesting they need to be coindental. The characters are believable. Overbearing and over-opinionated people like the grandmother are very realistic, while quiet and authoritative people like the son also exist. All the characters were perfect examples of the personality type they represent.
ReplyDeleteI think that the plot is kind of predictable because of the grandmothers complaints. But i agree with annie in that throwing obvious foreshadowing out into the storyline helps build anticipation and makes you wanna scream at the characters to not do what they are about to do.
ReplyDeleteGood country for old people seems very very random. I would like to find out if Flannery had an experience that relates to this because this weird fetish is the oddest i have heard of.......does he have a fake woman built somewheree of all his collected parts?
ReplyDelete"Good Country People" is one of the weirdest stories I have every read. The ending was weird, creepy, and distrubing. I did like the kind of slap in the face to Hulga. I just didn't understand why the guy was so weird and if he had any motivation to do what he did.
ReplyDeleteI guess that i should feel bad for Hulga but i think that she got what was coming to her. She has been bitter her whole life since the leg incident and she had a right to be bitter for a while but she should be over it by now and find the happiness in life. This was just karma's way of paying her back for being so rude.....after all she wasnt really raped or anything super bad.
ReplyDeleteI did like the foreshadowing in both of the stories. O'Flannery must be really weird though to come up with the stories she did. I liked how both Pointy and the grandmother's small comments turned out to be crucial in the foreshadowing of the stories. In a weird way both were good, creepy, and messed up.
ReplyDeleteAnnie i think some of the best actions in a book that stick in our minds well are the actions that are unmotivated and just spontaneous. I think that the spontaneous actions in life are what stick out the most to us because we are so baffled as to why it happened whether it be good or bad.
ReplyDeleteI didn't feel bad for Hulga at all. She had a leg problem since she was a little girl and should have been over the self pity a long time ago. Her mom played a major role in Hulga's attitude. If her mom hadn't treated her like a little girl, Hulga might've not been so whiny and helpless.
ReplyDeleteIn "A Good Man is Hard to Find" the plot is entirely too coincidental. What are the chances that the grandmother would confuse the state that a house was in, pick the one road in all of Georgia where the Misfit was, have the cat explode out of the basket, make the car roll, and low and behold the person who comes to help them is the infamous Misfit. Way too many coincidences for one play...I guess this might be believable in a M. Night Shyamalan movie.
ReplyDeleteThe characters are believable, but the plot is not. The Grandmother is the typical confused grandma who cares more about the cat's happiness than her own. The father is constantly annoyed on the trip as are most parents on road trips. But the plot as a previously stated would not happen, and if it did they must have broken ten mirrors, walked under one hundred ladders, and had fifty black cats walk across the road in front of them.
ReplyDeleteI loved "Good Country People". Hulga was the overweight pompous brat who considered herself better than everyone else. Then fate stepped in and left her legless in a loft without a way to get down. It would be mean to say that she had it coming, but she did. And realistically she should consider herself lucky, that man could have done much worse things to her other than steal her wooden leg.
ReplyDeleteI feel that Hulga/Joy will have a new outlook on life, for a while at least. Without her leg she will once again become dependent on her mother which may soften her hard exterior or it will be the catalyst for her emotional breakdown. Either way, it would make an entertaining story.
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