Comparing Two Flannery O'Connor Stories

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find” and “Good Country People” are both very similar stories, but the similarity that I found most interesting was the fact that the people who thought they new all of the answers both “got theirs” in the end, not that this is a good or a bad thing, I’m just saying…At any rate, the cool part about this is how in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” the Grandmother is very close minded, and refuses to see the bad in everything unless it is deemed “good” by her standards. In “Good Country People,” Hulga is very educated and dislikes folks who are close-minded. Both of these characters are very different from each other, and would probably want to scratch each others eyes out if they ever were to meet, yet they are so very similar. Both, in fact, are close minded, and take being this way to the max. I just thought this was really cool to think about in the sense that they are opposites, but on the second hand, not so much.