Irony and Foreshadow - Tools in Flannery O'Connor Works.
This paper discuses the foreshadowing and irony to give effect in story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." To foreshadow is to give a hint or a suggestion of a forthcoming event. Irony is the inconsistency between what actually happens and what is expected to happen. Both literary devices are represented very early in the story, and serve to set the tone for the piece. The first hint of trouble comes early in the first paragraph, when the grandmother tries to show Bailey a newspaper article about "The Misfit", a convict who has escaped the penitentiary and is en route to Florida.
