A Good Man is hard to find

“A Good Man is Hard To Find” In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard To Find”, one is struck by the foreshadowing events that lead to the unexpected violence at the end of the story. However, as the reader unravels the story you can see definite signs that foreshadow the ending. The events suggest that something unpleasant was going to happen in the story. The story begins with the typical nuclear family …showed first 75 words of 781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 781 total…was a floor’" (248). This description can pertain to a jail cell, tight grave or tomb. Foreshadowing effect can either make or break a story, it can hint too much or not enough. The foreshadowing in this story was very effective because everything that O’Connor suggested seemed to happen just as I thought it would and was still surprising. There was not an over-abundance of hints in this story but they were not scarce either.