Turns and Twists in Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard to Find Essa

Turns and Twists in Flannery OConnors A Good valet de chambre Is Hard to FindIrony is a useful slit for big stories unexpected turns and twists. In Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard to Find, derision is used as a real effective literary tool to guide the report card in and out of what we think will happen. OConnor uses sarcasm in this layer to contradict statements and situations to expose a truth very much different from what we the proofreader would think to be true. OConnor use chaff in several different forms, situational jeering, dramatic derision and communicative irony to make the story unpredictable and interesting to read. In most all(prenominal) aspect of the story from beginning to end there is some symbol of ironic twist. The title itself is some what ironic, where in a normal parliamentary procedure a good human race would be seen as a man that obeys laws and is kind to fellow humans not as a receiver and an escaped convict akin the Misfit. But th e nan in the story while her family is being taken way to be killed says, using verbal irony, I know youre a good man ... Youre not a bit common (335).The master(prenominal) feature in the story is the grandmother in which OConnor uses her for almost every ironic situation. In the beginning of the story OConnor uses the idea that we the reader have of what a grandmother would be like to unfold a story that is nothing like what we would perceive a grandmother to be like. This shell of irony is situational irony this is used passim the story and literature. It is the contrast between what happens and what was expected to happen or what would come along appropriate to have happen, or an appropriate way for a character to act versus the way they do act. If a story started out using a character thats a professiona... ... She uses cosmic irony a type of irony that goes beyond being unfair and is morally tragic, as the main setting for the story, you may not be able to see it safe away but the undertone are there. Such irony is lots so harsh that it causes people to question God, like the grandmother does close together(p) the end of the story, Thats when you should have started to pray...If you would pray, the old lady said, Jesus would help you. (336-337) The irony in this story reaches such a tragic state that as expected it may suggest to the characters in the story and even the reader that people could just be pawns in the hands of mysterious forces or fate.Works CitedOConnor, Flannery A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Making belles-lettres Matter An Anthology for Readers and Writers. Ed. John Schilb and John Clifford. 2nd ed. Boston Bedford/ St. Martins. 2003. 1379-1391.