tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post2027019387049419725..comments2024-03-25T10:47:42.656-07:00Comments on Can't Explain: "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (1953)Jeff Pikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-89894932073947355122017-09-23T12:18:00.905-07:002017-09-23T12:18:00.905-07:00Thanks for adding Flannery O'Connor to the Can...Thanks for adding Flannery O'Connor to the Can't Explain canon. When I began Wilmington College in September 1964, my Freshman English course used two anthologies, one of which included "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", the other "A Late Encounter with the Enemy", and I was immediately smitten by Flannery O'Connor's writing, a passion that's never left me. Later, I found the irony that O'Connor had died of lupus at age 39, just over a month before I discovered her. A short life, but one that created so much precise prose, with every word the perfect one, and never too many or too few. Check out her story "Revelation", one of my favorites, thanks to me having grown up around several Mrs. Turpins in rural Ohio. As for the pithy quotes from The Misfit, I've always been struck by his summation of his violence against the hapless family, "She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." Not an action I'd endorse, of course, but quite a trenchant concept just the same. -- Richard Riegel Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com