"A Good Man is Hard to Find" Despite the relatively limited volume of Flannery O’Connor’s published fiction, she has begun to be regarded as on of the most significant figures in the American literary canon in the 34 years since her death. Throughout her three novels and two volumes of short stories, O’Connor addresses a number of problematic issues and ideas, mostly through a conceptual framework firmly grounded in her devout Catholic faith. …showed first 75 words of 790 total…

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