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This paper attempts to analyze O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief and The Dogs (Al Liss Wal Kilab) to point out that grotesque characters are the outcome of grotesque societies. When the horrifying and the farcical reign and when inequality and injustice prevail, societies can be described as grotesque societies.
The definition of the grotesque which is used in this study is that of fragmentation and alienation of the self. Also it stresses the apparent absurdity of reality that participate in destroying people instead of embracing them with love and protection.