In the short story "Bluffing" written by Gail Helgason, one of the main characters are Liam who is critically injured from a bear attack. ... But then, "your" teacher tells "you" to write an analysis of the poem, and suddenly, the poem is not so nice anymore. "Then your teacher announces that you have thirty minutes to write an analysis of this poem and when you look the poem spits in your face and stops." ...
Therefore, the analysis of this story is going to be focused toward a biographical and historical approach. According to "A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature: Fourth Edition", the Historical-Biographical approach: "...sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of the author's life and times or the life and times of the characters in the work" (Guerin, 22). ...
Critical opinion over the years has tended to line up behind O'Connor's own explanations; however, O'Connor's analysis of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" still seems baffling, and occasionally a critic has questioned the theology of the fiction. ...
