Bibliography lists 6 sources. No additional sources cited. A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor. Trees are very symbolic. They have many meanings depending on how one looks at them and what connotation is given them.
Trees are symbols of both good and evil, and of life and death.
No other sources cited. A 10 page paper comparing the way Flannery O'Connor and John Updike develop a clash of worldviews in their short fiction. Bibliography lists 7 sources. A 5 page paper examining the characterization of the Misfit and the grandmother in this classic short story by Flannery O Connor. The story shows how our comfortable assumptions regarding the goodness or evil of these characters are turned upside down by O Connor s emphasis on nontraditional values.