Alejandra Gonzalez

English 1301

Professor Subia

3/11/2021

Analysis/Mid-Term

O'Connor's treatment of the characters during this story supports her perspective on man

as a fallen animal. Momentarily, the story portrays the obliteration of a by and huge too normal

family by 3 got off from convicts. The topical peak of the story includes a proposal of class and

therefore the grandma's acknowledgment of that blessing attributable to the revelation she

encounters shortly before her death. The occasions that cause that peak, still, manufacture a

major a part of the interest of the story.

The pursuer’s initial perspective on the family is one supposed to stipulate the insolence

and dispute that describe the family's associations with one another. The grandma's vainness and

vain disposition area unit created obvious within the initial 3 lines of the story. rather than assent

to the family's arrangement for associate excursion to FL, she needs to go to some of her

"associations" in east Tennessee. within the following line, one discovers that Bailey is her

solitary kid, barely of knowledge that forestalls a possible misinterpretation of the grandma's last

natural words, "You're one in all my youngsters," and on these lines keeps the see from missing

the activity of class toward the end of the story. In her endeavor to urge the family to travel to

Tennessee rather than to FL, the gran utilizes the report of the got off from killer, the Misfit, to

aim to upset Bailey into adjusting his perspective. though Bailey doesn't reply to her
(subsequently showing a complete absence of regard for her), the incidence offers associate

surprising hinting to the furthest limit of the story.

At the purpose once Bailey neglects to react to her pressing issue, the gran endeavors to

urge her lady relative-in-law, a uninteresting woman with a face "as expansive and clear as a

cabbage," to help her with persuading Bailey to travel to Tennessee as hostile FL on the grounds

that the youngsters, John Wesley and Gregorian calendar month Star, haven't nevertheless visited

Tennessee. Bailey's companion likewise overlooks the request, nevertheless the non-vocal

irreverence of the guardians discovers voice through the children. Their lead toward the gran

accentuates the irreverence that is traditional for the total family.

The grandma's that means of being "acceptable" is diagrammatical by her exceptionally

legitimate and composed voyaging outfit. O'Connor composes: If there ought to be a happening

of a mishap, anybody seeing her dead on the road would apprehend while not a moment's delay

that she was a girl. The gran is signally disturbed concerning appearances notwithstanding

anything. during this speculative mishap, she stresses not over her death or the passing of her

relatives, but concerning outsiders' assessments of her. She to boot exhibits no worry for the

condition of her spirit at the hour of her unreal passing, nevertheless we tend to feel that's on the

grounds that she is functioning underneath the presumption that her spirit is currently concerning

as unstained as her "naval force blue straw old salt cap with heaps of white violets on the sting."

Albeit "A smart Man is tough to Find" is associate early add the O'Connor cluster, it

contains a major variety of the parts that return to portray most of her short works of fiction. The

bigger a part of her accounts contains someone United Nations agency features a solid sensation
of sureness or feels that he has lived so his direct can't be self-addressed. As did the Greek

playwrights, O'Connor looks to look at these characters as being in a very condition of arrogance

(a condition delineate by tyrannical pride and a sense of being past the quality of destiny) and

considers them to be being prepared for collapse. during this manner, in many another story,

these folks area unit delivered to associate emergency purpose in their lives, and that they see

their fearlessness destroyed by occasions, or, over probably they expertise a exposure of

simplicity that makes them examine their previous existences and to envision the globe in

another and nonnatural light-weight. In like approach, several the narratives finish in brutality

since O'Connor felt that it as usually as attainable took savagery to stir the vein individual to the

inadequacies of life.