THE HOLY CONRADICTIONS OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR - A LITERARY OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S USAGE OF SYMBOLISM AND RELIGION In "A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND"

The Holy Contradictions of Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard To Find The realm of literature is littered with the works of fine authors who instead of relaying their messages blatantly, gave responsibility to the reader to in turn decipher the morale and the myth of the story. Logan Pearsall Smith once expressed his love for the literary prodigies by stating, "What I like in a good author is not what he says, but …

…about their flaws, a result of story publication that authors can rarely escape. O'Connor may have even known that her stories bred complications and simply did not comply with the status quo of "acceptable" reading material for society. We will never know the answer, and the question will probably remain an enigma, but Ben Satterfield was noted for saying while studying her works, "O'Connor was, after all, nearly as contradictory as the Bible itself" (Bandy 4).