She uses irony to make the story even more dramatic and interesting, and to show the very humanness of her characters. Another critic, Robert Drake, said of her work, "Presumably, then, what makes Miss O'Connor's stories good and at times brilliant is that, in her own way, she often does seem to have man's number -- and the world's" (Drake 348)
He writes her work is "Humorous, yes, but also uncanny, inexplicable, demonic, so you could never laugh at it as if you understood. Because if you pretended to understand, you, too, would find yourself among her demons practicing contempt" (Merton 341)
Henry prize three times, and many other awards and recognitions. She died in 1964 from complications of the disease lupus, and many critics call her the best short story writer in American history (Votteler 333-334)
Use either MLA or APA style. To what extent might "A Good Man is Hard to Find" be accurately described as a story "in which a character attempts to live autonomously, to define…values, only to be jarred back to…'reality' -- the recognition of helplessness in the face of contingency…"? (Katz 263)
This is the real meaning of the Misfit's final verdict on the grandmother: "She would of been a good woman…if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." (O'Connor 261)