Do you remember the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe as a brilliant mathematician with schizophrenia? The film is loosely based on the real John Forbes Nash, whose story is told in greater detail in the (unauthorized) biography by Sylvia Nasar
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O’ConnorThrough the ages, philosophers have debated the issue of man’s morality. The question can be asked like this: “Is man basically good, having a potential for evil? Or, is man essentially bad, with the potential for doing good?” How do we distinguish between a “good” person and a “bad” person? If you were to ask the average person on the street, most people would likely say they believe man is basically good. But I believe that the southern Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) would disagree with this assessment. O’Connor’s stories have been classified as Southern Gothic. She is quoted as remarking that “anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.” She uses irony and dark humor in some of her short stories to expose the depravity that she believes exists in the heart of every person. Continue reading “Flannery O’Connor: Seeing the Bad in the Good (Part One)”
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