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Growing up during the Depression in the South, Flannery O’Connor was fascinated with many of the antiquated social customs of Southern lifestyles and, as well, had a rather continuing desire to understand her Catholic faith. Even her early writing as a teenager seemed to revolve around these two themes. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is one of her later writings, but still she chose the same themes and settings – a type of literature that came to be known as “Southern Gothic.”