LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 20:8 August 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Biblical Allusions to the Garden of Eden in Flannery O’Connor’s
A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Song Cho, Doctor of Intercultural Studies (DIS)

Biblical allusions are sprinkled throughout the stories of Flannery O’Connor. Of particular interest to this short note are the allusions to the Garden of Eden. In Parker’s Back, Parker meets Sarah as he sells apples—which is often portrayed as the forbidden fruit in Eden. Toward the end of the story he “felt the light pouring through him turning his spider web soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts” (my emphasis, 528). Could there be other allusions to the Garden of Eden?

Early in A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother says: “ ‘There was a secret panel in the house,’” she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, ‘and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it’ ” (123, my emphasis). Notable is the author’s use of the word craftily. The serpent in Eden is generally depicted as a crafty creature. This being so, it is worth examining the manner in which the grandmother displays the following snakelike characteristics: she “hissed” at her granddaughter June Star (121), “was curled up under the dashboard (144-5, my emphasis), and “sank down in the ditch with her legs twisted under her” (125, my emphasis).

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Song Cho, Doctor of Intercultural Studies (DIS)
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Hampton University
Hampton, VA 23669
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