Flannery O'Connor publishes "The Displaced Person"

"The Displaced Person" was published by Harcourt Brace & Company as part of O'Connor's collection of short stories entitled A Good Man Is Hard To Find. "The Displaced Person" is the final story in the collection. O'Connor is known for peopling her stories with misfits and unlikable characters. Larissa Runyan, in her recent dissertation from the University of Oklahoma, emphasizes the location of "The Displaced Person" in the collection, suggesting that O'Connor intentionally holds Mr. Guizac's story until the end, as the "one good man of the collection."