Since I first read her work in a Landscape and Setting class I took in college, Flannery O’Connor has been one of my favorite writers, and her short-story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is something near divine perfection. I’ve recently started reading Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life, so I thought I’d return to the story that first drew me to all things O’Connor, and take a very close look at nine sentences close to the end. (Click on the two files below for the comments; if you haven’t read the full story before, do so now, as the passage I’ve chosen ruins the ending.)
38 Comments in Nine Sentences, from Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.
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