A Good Man Is Hard To Find Foreshadowing Analysis

In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the use of foreshadowing drives the reader towards the imminent death of the family, and even shows the reader who the murderer will be. “we could say that it prepares readers for what will happen later in the story”(K.M. Weiland).O’Connor does this by incorporating three different parts in the story which foreshadow the death. The first is when the story says that the killer is in Florida which is the state that they are traveling to. The second is when they pass six graves. The third is when The Misfit digs and re-buries a hole. By adding these three things the author foreshadowed the murders of the family, and even who the murderer would be. The Author of “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O'Connor, uses foreshadowing to engage her audiences and verify that there are no accidents in literature. The first foreshadowing part of the story is right in the beginning, This quote from the story is the grandmother talking …show more content…
“Foreshadowing is particularly compelling when the reader re-reads a text, having then the ultimate knowledge of the story’s whole. The second and subsequent times through the text, the reader finds all sorts of nuggets that can be very satisfying in terms of realizing just how carefully the story was crafted.”(Gene Fant) Sometimes parts in stories that foreshadow upcoming events may be very subtle. So subtle that the first time the reader, reads the text they may not even think twice about it. But after the story is read a first time and the reader knows the events in the end of the story they can pick up on those small foreshadowing events. If foreshadowing is not subtle enough it can ruin the story. So it takes a skilled author to be able to implement it correctly so it can have its full effect.There are other times in the story where foreshadowing is used. The foreshadowing of death was the most prevalent through out the story