Social Class Inequality In O Connor And Hughes

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In the short story “A Good Man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor and the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, both authors bring up class and equality in their work. O’Connor’s story narrates a middle-upper white family in the South during 1950s, focusing on the southerners’ prejudice view of African Americans. On the other hand, Hughes’ poem is through a first person point of view as an African American, discussing the struggles faced by an African American in the early 1950s. Together, the two work of literatures help us understand social class inequality faced by African Americans, and how it influences their everyday lives.
One literary technique O’Conner and Hughes used to reveal social class struggles in their works is setting, and