Literature is imaginative writing related to culture that has aesthetic points (Ross, 1996,
p. 406).
Literature always related to human being. It is because it can show the everyday life that happened in
the surroundings of a writer.
There are many popular women or men writers in this world.
They wrote some contravention in their era; Flannery O'connor is one of those writers. She is an
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She usually wrote in a sardonic Southern
Gothic style and grotesque characters, often in violent situations.
She bravely write her Roman Catholic faith to reflect and examines her questions of morality and ethics. Her work won the
1972 U.S National Book Award for Fiction.
This article tries to examine the female lead character on her two selected works; The
"Displaced Person" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
These works selected because there are few same things on them and both of them in the same collection book
entitled "The Complete Story".
They also have the female character as the main lead of the story.
These two works are very popular in her short story. It shows the same violent situation in their
style.
O'connor writes these stories with the murder scene in different situations.
This article wants to compare and contrast the female lead character in both of the stories.