Desmond, "Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil"

"On one level the story's title refers to the words of a popular song 'A good man is hard to find/ You always get the other kind' But on another level it also suggests Christ's rebuke to Peter when Peter tried to call him good, and Jesus responded that no one should be called good (Mark 10:18)" (Desmond).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/03/teacher_for_a_day.html

Desmond sweetheart, are you confused, because I def. am?!?!

check it out and give me your insight!:)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StephanieWytovich/2008/03/so_um_what.html

LOST SOULS

"What the Misfit fears is the mystery of love, the demands of love wich the grandmother mysteriously responded to when faced with the criminal's suffering, and her own impending death."

I chose this passage because this is how I feel about the Misfit. He's a lost soul and does not know what to do with his desires. He chooses evil instead, which is what most lost souls do. They're separated from good. This refers back to Adam and Eve. The snake deceived them, but they would not have been deceived if they would have had more solid beliefs and understandings of themselves.

"Yet the supreme rationalist that he is, the Misfit cannot admit the need of a power beyond logic" (Desmond 130).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EthanShepley/2008/03/i_need_you_but_i_dont_need_you.html

“But on another level it also suggests Christ’s rebuke to Peter when Peter tried to call him good, and Jesus responded that no one should be called good (Mark 10:18)--a mistake that the Grandmother makes repeatedly in her encounter with the Misfit. At the same time, it is also true to say that, excepting Satan, no one should be called totally evil, certainly not in any absolute sense. Good and Evil, as potentialities and as actualities, are inextricably inter-twined in human beings, and this is true for bothe the Grandmother and the Misfit.” (Desmond, Essay on O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/03/_but_on_another_level.html

"But on another level it also suggests Christ's rebuke to Peter when Peter tried to call him good, and Jesus responded that no one should be called good (Mark 10:18) - a mistake the Grandmother makes repeatedly in her encounter with the Misfit" (Desmond 129).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/03/desmonds_flannery_oconnors_mis.html

“He rejects belief in Christ yet he recognizes that a world in which actions and consequences cannot be made sense of leads ultimately to a world in which logical distinctions between good and evil collapse” (Desmond).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/03/nietzsche_is_the_misfit.html

I Finally Get Close Reading!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2008/03/i_finally_get_close_reading.html

Find out why I killed your mother today.

P.S. I didn't really kill your mother. We just chatted and I reflected upon myself and realized my own human vulnerability. Don't ask me why she won't answer your calls now.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/03/i_killed_your_mother_today_and_1.html

"The Misfit, then, wants not only to understand the mystery of evil he feels, but also, somehow, to be justified in the face of it. He wants justice as well as knowledge, and also to be liberated from his predicament. The deisre itself is good; the Psalms exalt the human longing for a world of justice and constancy (Pslam 96). However, the Misfit seems more interested in personal vindication rather than communal justice" (Desmond, 'Flannery O'Connor's Misfit and the Mystery of Evil')

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/03/vindicated_more_than_just_a_go.html

"The Misfit openly acknowledges his own evil. When the Grandmother tries to type him as a "good" man, i.e. a gentleman, he answers 'Nome, I ain't a good man...' and then adds: 'but I ain't the worst in the world neither'(148)" (Desmond 130)

"It is not difficult to label the agent of evil in Flannery O'Connor's signature story, 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'" (Desmond 129).

It's obvious that you want to read more: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LaurenMiller/2008/03/if_its_obvious_then_why_bring.html

"The Misfit openly acknowledges his own evil. When the Grandmother tries to type him as a "good" man, i.e. a gentleman, he answers 'Nome, I ain't a good man...' and then adds: 'but I ain't the worst in the world neither'(148)" (Desmond 130)

"The Misfit openly acknowledges his own evil. When the Grandmother tries to type him as a "good" man, i.e. a gentleman, he answers 'Nome, I ain't a good man...' and then adds: 'but I ain't the worst in the world neither'(148)" (Desmond 130)