Dehumanization in A Good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery OConnor was known for her Southern chivalric storytelling, and her story A candid Man is Hard to hazard  is no exception. The story is readiness in the 1950s during a raunchy period of American business relationship when Jim Crow laws continued to separate citizens. Although not the main focus, OConnors refer to pickaninnies in the text reveals the focus mainstream popular culture disseminated fetid stereotypes that further dehumanized shadowy children by viewing them through and through a rattling(a) lens. The grotesque manner in which pickaninnies argon described communicates the way they were astray viewed in society during this era.\nThey were viewed as having, bulging eyes, big red-faced lips, and they speak in a primitive, stereotypical dialect. They are a good deal shown stuffing their wide mouths with watermelon or chicken, which they usually stole. They are unkempt, suggesting that their parents are neglectful. Very ofttimes they are shown nude, a level of sexualization that is particularly troubling imputable to their age (Caricatures of  African Americans...). The grandmothers expend of the term piccaninny, and her continued storytelling drivel, symbolise an adverse caricaturization of Southern subdued children. Additionally, although brief, the grandmothers observations appear to touch on of all aspects of what defines a pickaninny during this time period.\nThe grandmother believes she is transcendent to others and her condescension is clearly conveyed during a family road trip to Florida. in the lead leaving, the grandmother wanted to realize sure she was dressed in a ladylike sidetrack comprised of white cotton gloves, a navy blue blue stem sailor hat, and a navy blue dress (OConnor 195-96). Her look was important to her, but belies her straightforward nature, which was revealed during their travels. Her reference to pickaninnies seems to reference the honest-to-god Southern way of life, and the flaws i n her character. Oh look at the cunning little pickaninny wouldnt that defecate a picture, now?�...