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Turns and Twists in Flannery OConnors A Good domain Is arduous to FindIrony is a expedient tool for giving stories unexpected turns and twists. In Flannery OConnors A Good Man Is Hard to Find, banter is used as a very trenchant literary tool to guide the composition in and out of what we trust will follow. OConnor uses caustic remark in this explanation to contradict statements and situations to expose a truth very much different from what we the reader would think to be true. OConnor use banter in several different forms, situational irony, dramatic irony and verbal irony to make the story unpredict subject and interesting to read. In most every aspect of the story from beginning to end at that place is some type of ironic twist. The title itself is some what ironic, where in a normal society a good human beings would be seen as a man that obeys laws and is kind to fellow humans not as a murderer and an escaped convict a resembling the Misfit. But the naan in the s tory while her family is being taken path to be killed says, using verbal irony, I know youre a good man ... Youre not a bit common (335).The main character in the story is the nanna in which OConnor uses her for almost every ironic situation. In the beginning of the story OConnor uses the idea that we the reader have of what a grandmother would be like to unfold a story that is nothing like what we would perceive a grandmother to be like. This type of irony is situational irony this is used throughout the story and literature. It is the contrast between what happens and what was expected to happen or what would seem appropriate to have happen, or an appropriate way for a character to act versus the way they do act. If a story started out using a character thats a professiona... ... She uses cosmic irony a type of irony that goes beyond being unfair and is virtuously tragic, as the main setting for the story, you may not be able to see it right away but the undertone are the re. such(prenominal) irony is often so harsh that it causes people to question God, like the grandmother does near the end of the story, Thats when you should have started to pray...If you would pray, the old lady said, savior would help you. (336-337) The irony in this story reaches such a tragic state that as expected it may suggest to the characters in the story and even the reader that people could just be pawns in the work force of mysterious forces or fate.Works CitedOConnor, Flannery A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Making Literature Matter An Anthology for Readers and Writers. Ed. John Schilb and John Clifford. 2nd ed. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/ St. Martins. 2003. 1379-1391.