A Good Man Is Hard To Find Familial Roles

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Familial Roles The short stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Hills Like White Elephants” are two very different stories but are similar in one way, family plays a very strong role. Hemingway uses family to show the good in people while O’Connor uses it to show the good and bad in people. For example, in “Hills Like White Elephants” at first Jig was basically willing to do anything necessary to keep the man in her life, even if that meant aborting her own baby. On the other hand, in the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” you see the good in family as the family takes a vacation but you see the bad in family when the Misfit ends up shooting the grandmother and having the rest of his family taken off in the woods to be shot. Even though …show more content…
The man from “Hills Like White Elephants” and the grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, both use very good points to defend their reasons for wanting to do something and they both end up being the wrong decision. The man uses all the excuses he could think of to make sure Jig thinks that aborting the baby is the right thing to do. “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in.” (Hemingway) The man saying that is one of many examples of how the man was telling her anything to get his way. He knew very well how unsafe and illegal abortion was in that time period. He also knew that Jig would be very looked down upon in Spain if anyone found out she got an abortion. In the other story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother uses the fact that the Misfit has escaped from jail to get her way. “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer to my conscience if I did.” (O’Connor). Even though the Misfit did truly escape from jail, he obviously was not on his way to Florida. The grandmother did not see the danger she was about to put her entire family into or maybe she did not care …show more content…
It also explains why the story had such a grave ending. This story appeals to an American audience because it begins as a typical family road trip that most families take. While Hemingway on the other hand, his writing style was very different. Hemingway wrote in a way that was descriptive yet secretive. He used a lot of metaphors so you would not really know what he was writing about until it was revealed at the
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