Critical Essay on three Short Stories by Flannery O’ Connor After reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”, and “Greenleaf”—three stories by Flannery O’ Connor—it was nearly impossible for me to see “the action of grace in the human heart” in O’ Connor herself. By the casual reader, O’ Conner may often be charged with being cruel—a point that could be made so clear, it …showed first 75 words of 688 total…

…showed last 75 words of 688 total…the gunshots in the forested area near the road. Even in the action of murdering of the family, The Misfit seems to show some sort of grace by segmenting the family members being sent to their deaths. Nonetheless, if I were forced to choose out of the three short stories indicated, which one seems to me “to convey most forcefully this ‘action of grace’ ”, I must arrive at “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.