"The representation of the grotesque is a characteristic of much 20th century writing" (Holman 61). Almost all of O'Connor's short stories usually end in horrendous, freak fatalities or, at the very least, a character's emotional devastation. People have categorized O'Connor's work as "Southern Gothic" (Walters 30). In Many of her short stories, A Good Man Is Hard To Find for example, Flannery O'Connor creates grotesque characters to illustrate the evil in people. Written in 1953, A Good Man …showed first 75 words of 1258 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1258 total…Flannery O'Connor. Twayne's United States Authors Series. Twayne Publishers, Inc: Boston, 1973. http://www.cyberpat.com/essays/flan.html The Dark Side of the Cross: Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction ©1996 Patrick Galloway . http://faculty.kutztown.edu/reagan/oconnor.html. Dr. Bette A. Reagan http://www.mediaspecialist.org/cooklight.html Light and Shadow: Religious Grace in Two Stories by Flannery O'Connor © 2002, David Allen Cook. http://mnmn.essortment.com/flanneryoconno_rqkk.htm A Good Man Is Hard To Find.