Mary Flannery O’Connor is a famous American writer during the 1900s (Sarah). She is born on 1925 in Savanah. When she is fifteen, her father passes away because of a sickness calls systemic lupus erythematosus, which also takes her life as well at age thirty-nine. She graduates from University of Iowa and begins to publish her initial novels. The majority of the American book reviewers and envy readers are fascinated of her papers. Her Southern Gothic writing attracts lots of readers compare to other writers in those days because of her unique writing style. She has an effective used of both symbolism and irony to enhance the main character deeply such as “ A Good Man is Hard to Find” short story.
Symbolism is a literary device which helps to add a deeper meaning to the story. In O’Connor’s writing works, she implies symbolism to emphasize a specific feeling of a character. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the main character is the grandmother who is travelling with her family to Florida. During the trip, the family catches an accident and meets the Mistif. When the young mother and her children are going with one of the Mistif member, the grandmother stays silence in a cloudless sky, “Alone with The Misfit, the grandmother found that she had lost her voice. There was not a cloud in the sky nor any sun. There was nothing around her but woods”(Gioia, Dana, and Gwynn --). In this example, O’Connor uses the weather as a symbol in order to illustrate the character’s state of mind. On the sky, the cloud has gone to make the day looks clear and empty. Inside the grandmother’s mind, she feels the misery and emptiness on what she has done to her family. She unintentionally brings the family into a dangerous situation. Overall, the cloudless sky symbolizes the grandmother’s emotional state.
Another good example of a symbolism is the old house that the grandmother brings out during a conversation, “she woke up a...