Pride

Pride Pride Webster’s New World Dictionary defines pride as “an unduly high opinion of oneself.” Flannery O’Connor uses pride in her short stories. O’Connor’s characters position themselves higher in society until someone comes along to lead them to their mistakes. In most cases, the main character is the one having an abundance of pride. One of the best examples of this is A Good Man is Hard to Find. In this short story, the grandmother is the main character. As the family leaves for their vacation the grandmother remembers to dress like a lady in case something were to happen to her. She is a racist and loves to talk about her youth when she was a maiden lady. During their trip the grandmother leads the family down an old dirt road to see a house from her childhood. Minutes into the journey she realizes that it is the wrong road. She doesn’t tell her son, who is driving, because she was embarrassed. The grandmother’s cat jumps after being startled by the grandmother. The cat lands on the son and he wreaks the car. After the wreck, The Misfit, an escaped mrs, o’connor, tanner, turpin, one, man, grandmother, family, characters, stories, society, people, daughter, pride, lesson, character, black, about, story, racist, new, main, just, above, young, two, tell, talk, son, short, position, out, next, much, misfit