Inhumanity in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to...

In Flannery O’Connor’s, â€Å"A Good Man is Hard to Find,† and Shirley Jacksons, â€Å"The Lottery,† both short stories deal with man’s inhumanity in different situations, and ending with a similar consequence. Jackson and OConnor both use two characters to depict man having the power to manipulate truth and objection into something people accept. In O’Connor’s’ A Good Man is Hard to Find, the Misfit is a character in need of desired assistance, troubled and confused he wanders savagely murdering strangers. On the opposite side of the ring, you have a seemingly traditional early 1900’s Caucasian senior citizen traveling with her family. Hasting to waste time, the grandmother drives her family all through the Southeastern states. The two meet†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"The feelings of uneasiness caused by executions being performed in an arbitrary manner reverberates on several levels. First, we see the character s within the story itself begin to question the necessity of the ritual† (Shields 412-413). There has to be a point where someone could have spoken to reveal the inhumanity of this pugnacious tradition that has plagued the community for more than seventy-seven years. Then again, no, there are no words said about the inhumanity of the violence, until Tessie Hutchinsons’ family gets chosen. She defends her family stating, â€Å"You didnt give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasnt fair!†(Jackson). She then is attacked by her fellow friends, Be a good sport, Tessie. Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, All of us took the same chance. Mrs. Hutchinson at this point is being very hypocritical; the lottery was fair for all the citizens, so why doesn’t she just go along with the tradition? Would her outbursts have been the same if Mrs. Hutchinsons’ family wasn’t chosen? The final words of Mrs. Hutchinson were It is nt fair, it isnt right.† Both O’Connor’s and Jacksons’ short stories display crucial argumentative points about tradition, and inhumanity. They both can relate of the theme that life is a gamble. From the grandmother trying to use her faith to save her desperate life, to even the most relative example of all, the lottery. The grandmother