A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor | Summary & Analysis

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025

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  • @elwache09
    @elwache09 3 года назад +267

    you just helped me write a 2,000 page essay worth 40% of my semester, we had over a month to turn it in and I finished it in 4 hours

    • @anouaressanoussi
      @anouaressanoussi 3 года назад +24

      2000 word essay in 4 hours? How lol?

    • @theparadigm8149
      @theparadigm8149 3 года назад +20

      @@anouaressanoussi Nah, they put “2,000 page essay”… 😟 I don’t believe it!

    • @anouaressanoussi
      @anouaressanoussi 3 года назад +7

      @@theparadigm8149 loool. I read that too but prolly simple mistake

    • @theparadigm8149
      @theparadigm8149 3 года назад +3

      @@anouaressanoussi Yeah, but a 2,000-word requirement still seems ridiculous! 😳

    • @anouaressanoussi
      @anouaressanoussi 3 года назад +2

      @@theparadigm8149 Bruh for real. I've never had that before. That's why I asked how they did it in 4 hours which is insanely quick. I had more hours with much less words 😅

  • @evaphillips2102
    @evaphillips2102 Год назад +24

    This story has haunted me for years. Thanks for the explanation for some of the esoteric meanings buried in the plot.

  • @evelynrosales3804
    @evelynrosales3804 4 года назад +158

    Just saved me from my English class😁

    • @Nyt.rain7
      @Nyt.rain7 3 года назад

      @Remington Elliott ewww

  • @maxwilson2785
    @maxwilson2785 4 года назад +59

    gotta write an essay on this and turn it in by midnight

  • @48laveo
    @48laveo 2 года назад +8

    Thank You! I could never understand this story. Until now.

  • @itzjames9995
    @itzjames9995 4 года назад +46

    Always coming in clutch for mr.gotts English class

  • @tee_sutton
    @tee_sutton 2 года назад +11

    You are AWESOME sir! I am much better reading and understanding and finalizing these short stories.

  • @Rob-eo5ql
    @Rob-eo5ql 4 года назад +45

    Pitty Sing was a famous Japanese opera about three criminals

    • @yoomi864
      @yoomi864 3 года назад +1

      The mikado was not actually Japanese. It was set in Japan and the characters were Japanese, but the writers and actors were all white. Also, I've heard that "pitty sing" might just be southern baby-talk for "pretty thing"

  • @TaraHower
    @TaraHower 4 года назад +26

    i honestly thought the climax was when the misfit is introduced

  • @genslove74
    @genslove74 Год назад +1

    That was a good review. I am not even going to read the whole thing anymore for my paper. Thank you!

  • @brendenlee9043
    @brendenlee9043 Месяц назад

    This is a good example of authority does not equal infallibility

  • @josephnorton4729
    @josephnorton4729 11 месяцев назад +4

    What I wanna know is what happened to the cat

  • @CallOSaulTitan
    @CallOSaulTitan 2 года назад +2

    This is the deus ex machina of my essay! Thank you!

  • @vanessavega2813
    @vanessavega2813 3 месяца назад

    couldn’t have explained it better

  • @togekissbliss
    @togekissbliss 4 года назад +39

    I'm still confused though,.. Is the Misfit really one of the Grandmother's children, or was she simply saying that in a religious sense?

    • @neelumawan7721
      @neelumawan7721 4 года назад +29

      no , he is not
      she says it ,only to save herself, her life.

    • @ManuelNestero
      @ManuelNestero 4 года назад +31

      @@neelumawan7721 Yeah when I think about it , the grandmother is fully aware of her deceitful nature e.g. she is trying from the outset to manipulate her son to go where she wants to go (saying it would be good for the children to east Tennessee but she's only thinking about herself).
      In the end she tried to seize on the Misfit's brief moment of weakness (caused by the religious discussion) and tried to personify Jesus or God, but he saw right through her blasphemous lies ("he felt like a snake bit him, like the devil in the garden of Eden).

    • @e.king15_
      @e.king15_ 4 года назад +2

      @@ManuelNestero This was an great analogy, never thought that deep into the last bit.

    • @randyalbertsw1992
      @randyalbertsw1992 3 года назад +1

      @@ManuelNestero that’s not the common interpretation of the ending but is the only one that makes sense to me. She doesn’t/can’t change on a dime like most think she did.

    • @tee_sutton
      @tee_sutton 2 года назад

      Good question?

  • @linencastle
    @linencastle 3 года назад +2

    4:55 (just a time stamp of difference between grandmother and misfit)

  • @yumeee.7
    @yumeee.7 4 года назад +8

    It was a good summary! thank you

  • @macaroniii03
    @macaroniii03 2 года назад +18

    I like this guy. hes so enthusiastic

  • @robinalove4340
    @robinalove4340 Год назад +1

    thank you

  • @01123heavenlybe
    @01123heavenlybe 2 года назад +1

    Oh very forward thinking! 😎

  • @brainwise5730
    @brainwise5730 2 года назад +1

    This guy is the FUTURE DUSTIN from stranger things Hahah! Totally reminded me of him. And by the way, beautiful explanation.

  • @ayannagriffin8105
    @ayannagriffin8105 2 года назад +2

    Thank you❤️❤️

  • @YoungSinatra878
    @YoungSinatra878 4 года назад +5

    You guys rock!

  • @honkhonk8052
    @honkhonk8052 3 года назад +3

    If I don’t pass my critical essay I’ll die

  • @spacejam5166
    @spacejam5166 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you 💯

  • @salwaibrahim2522
    @salwaibrahim2522 2 года назад +2

    What's the meaning of a secret panel here?

  • @siemspark
    @siemspark 4 года назад +3

    thank you!

  • @-friday
    @-friday 4 года назад +3

    very good you're a savior

  • @shakespearaamina9117
    @shakespearaamina9117 2 года назад +1

    Brilliant! thanks! 😊🙏

  • @loudjennebekkari5860
    @loudjennebekkari5860 2 года назад +1

    What kind of world is depicted in the story

  • @alyssaann1515
    @alyssaann1515 3 года назад +19

    I wish you would talk and not sound like you're auctioning pumpkins at the fair or something.

  • @keouine
    @keouine 5 месяцев назад +1

    I really want to get in a debate with someone about this story. I think it's an ok story that's been over hyped and whose words on the page do not adequately support the interpretations. One could just as well say the Misfit has qualities of Satan, the clever advocate. How lasting and deep is grandmother's sudden kindness? I would have liked the story better if reviewers applaud her murder as a consequence of her sudden newfound foxhole fervor instead of trying to bring in O'Connor god's grace crap. Is her faith real or is she grabbing automatically at the Sunday school teaching. What Southern Christian doesn't urge prayer for everything. Not proof of an epiphany. "not knowing what she was saying feeling so dizzy" does not sound like a martyr. In fact that's going to be my interpretation. Seems every other person has his own, after all. That's a weakness not a strength. What I don't get are all the other pages? Are the others even necessary to the story? The family is just normal people not the abnormal mean group reviewers try to call them. Nor is grandmother all that bad as short story characters go. I conclude by saying before I ever read a single analysis, I thought the road side murders reminded me a lot of similar murders committed by Nazis or Japanese in WWII. I figured she was giving Americans a taste of what the rest of the world had know just a few years before publishing.

  • @motokalitv
    @motokalitv 3 года назад

    Nice

  • @elinsoncanales6634
    @elinsoncanales6634 4 года назад +4

    I don´t get what does this story has to do with ¨the culture of The Old South¨ can anyone help ? pls

    • @msjennifer6119
      @msjennifer6119 4 года назад +27

      The grandmother mentions a lot of Old South culture: plantation houses, racial slurs, the importance of marrying for wealth and good manners.

    • @missvida6251
      @missvida6251 Год назад +2

      Maybe you should actually read the book boo.

    • @zombierobot8769
      @zombierobot8769 Год назад

      The names of the Misfits helpers are also based off civil war generals, Robert E Lee and a false name Grant went under

  • @12rwoody
    @12rwoody 3 года назад +2

    This guy's voice tho

  • @lucmin0729
    @lucmin0729 2 года назад +2

    people who did their english hw with this
    👇

  • @ChristopherThomas-ry1ep
    @ChristopherThomas-ry1ep 11 месяцев назад +1

    I wish you could speak intelligibly and not speaking in tongue as this...

  • @danieljohnson9147
    @danieljohnson9147 2 года назад +3

    This analysis completely omits the racist and southern overtones. Not a good analysis at all!

    • @missvida6251
      @missvida6251 Год назад +6

      Ok so read the damn book. Why include the racist parts anyway? So you can cry and complain that he mentioned it? Read the damn book and read it for yourself.

  • @Thorrific6969
    @Thorrific6969 Год назад +4

    You are extremely annoying but good job I guess

    • @Thorrific6969
      @Thorrific6969 Год назад

      I read this story before any of you, even the video guy, were born

    • @Thorrific6969
      @Thorrific6969 Год назад

      I guess it's ok for Millennial dumbasses (redundant term, I know) with self-diagnosed ADHD who need some grating quirky beta hipster to yell at them about stuff they are too dumb to actually read. Animation was ok. Anyone who has actually read the story should be appalled and barf

    • @SandyL0uise
      @SandyL0uise 9 месяцев назад +2

      Disagree. That he did a good job. He’s annoying as hell of course. It seems he has very little understanding of this story. Or religion. Or Flannery O’Conner.

    • @Thorrific6969
      @Thorrific6969 9 месяцев назад

      @@SandyL0uise I had hoped that the "but good job I guess" would have been obvious as sarcasm

    • @SandyL0uise
      @SandyL0uise 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Thorrific6969 Oh, goodness, no. Especially since everyone on this thread has showered him with praise for his analysis.