The theme of the effect of selfishness

The theme of the effect of selfishness

Write a research paper on the theme of the effect of selfishness in shirley jackson’s ” We have always lived in the castle” and Flannery O’ connors “A good man is hard to find”

Thesis: Shirley Jackson and Flannery O’ Connor both illustrate a theme of the effect of selfishness of the main protagonists which ultimately lead to their family’s death. The grandmothers use of manipulation to get her own way is what inevitably caused the grandmother and her family’s death. Mary Katherine Blackwood does not play a big part in her family urging her to murder her mother and father in order to gain more meaning for herself.

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