The short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor could be viewed as a comic strip about massacre and martyrdom. What stops it from becoming a solemn story is its intensity, ambition, and unfamiliarity. O'Connor blends the line between humor and terror. She introduces her audience to the horror of self-love. The grandmother is thought of by the community as agood person and appears to be so on the surface, but …showed first 75 words of 2623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2623 total…Find." She has blended the line between the satirical and the lyrical. For a reader to look at this story in any other way than a comic strip about massacre and martyrdom would do an injustice to Flannery O'Connor's intentional satirical writing. Works Cited Di Renzo, Anthony. American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press,1993. O'Connor, Flannery. Collected Works. New York: Library Classics of the United States,Inc. 1988.