A Good Man Is Hard To Find

She intentionally lies about the house having a secret panel just to get the kids interest so that Bailey would be more likely to stop and visit. The grandmother is also portrayed as being very loud and outgoing. When the family stops at the restaurant, she carries on a conversation with a complete stranger. She also wants to get up and dance.

I believe that the cat was the only thing that showed her love and attention. Her only son, had a family of his own, her grandchildren were older now, and she felt like she was not important to them anymore, and the children?s mother was involved with the baby. By bringing the cat, she felt like she would not be lonely. The reader can also tell that the woman is extremely prejudice. She refers to the black child as a ?cute little pickaninny? and a nigger.

In the beginning, the grandmother is reading the newspaper where she then learns about the Misfit who escaped prison. The grandmother says, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscious if it did” (O’Connor 485). This quote foreshadows as the accident happened with her guidance on the road it is what led them to steer off the main road. They were on and into the arms of who they call the Misfit and his

A family has decided to go to Florida for vacation but, the grandmother tries to convince her son to go Tennessee instead. Afterwards, she shows him that an article saying that a convicted felon called The Misfit has escaped and moving towards Florida. The grandmother never-the-less comes along and hides her cat with her. During their trip, the grandmother wakes up from a nap and says a plantation she has visited once is close. She convinces her son to go there and shows him the way. After driving into the woods, she then realizes that the house she visited was in Tennessee, not in Georgia. Startled by her mistake, her cat jumps and scares Bailey who then crashes the car. A car that happened to be passing by, stops and three men, with guns

Throughout O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, there is a recurring theme reflected in the characters’ morals and ultimate demise: those who unquestionably and naively trust others, even for the sake of being a “good” person, often suffer. The consequences of naivete and undying faith in others is demonstrated through the characters’ values and their downfall, especially that of the grandmother. The grandmother repeatedly claims to have high standards and morals, though her definition of a “good” person is always fluctuating and inconsistent.

Manipulation, selfishness, and lying can all have repercussions, and O’Connor shows that. One of the first ways that the grandmother uses manipulation to try to get what she wants happens at the very beginning of the story. When the family planned to go to Florida the grandmother did not want to go there, she wanted to go to Tennessee because she had people she knew there. So instead of talking to her son and saying we should go to Tennessee, she goes into details about this mischief that escaped from prison. She says “‘I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that on the loose”’(O’Connor 356).

The grandmother lives her life in denial of what differs a good person to a bad one where the misfit knows this difference. The hearse like automobile is his car that approaches the wrecked car and family. The Grandmother, not thinking of her consequences, points out that he is the dangerous criminal on the loose. He warns her that it was a bad decision to point that out, upsetting her. After talking briefly, he has his henchmen take portions of the family into the woods while he talks to the grandmother.

From the beginning, the grandmother is a difficult person and stubborn when she tried to convince her son to change his mind about the route of the vacation family trip. The destiny was Florida, but the old lady was not happy about the decision. She unsuccessfully used her arguments to persuade his son. We can tell that her relatives just tolerate the old grandmother, but it is not clear the reason for that. She is a single old lady and the only people she has are her family.

So they got on a dirt road that she thought would lead to her old house. This road was in very bad condition. You could tell nobody used it because of the holes and bumps and washouts. The grandmother had remembered that they were in

How is it possible for a grown woman to think her life is more important than her own grandchildren? In the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor writes about how his main character encounters a serial killer by the name of “The Misfit”. At the beginning of the story, the family travels to Florida for a family vacation, but the grandmother believes her plans and safety are more important than the rest of the family. When it comes to the grandmother, the reader would think she is a caring and loving person by just the sound of her name, but she is actually a dishonest and selfish person.

The irony of the story is that it is under the directions of the Grandmother that leads the family into a run in with The Misfit, which is what she told her son she would never do. Throughout the trip we are given examples of the racism that was present during this period. The Grandmother makes multiple racist innuendos such as her observation of the “cute little pickaninny,” and her statement that “little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do” (O’Conner 2). During the ride, The Grandmother convinces Bailey to take a detour down an old, dirt road which supposedly leads to an old southern plantation home she once visited. The road leads them deep into the woods where an accident is caused by The Grandmothers cat, which leaves the car upturned and the family stranded. It is then the family encounters The Misfit, whom discovers them stranded as he was passing by. He approaches the family with two young men and shortly after The Grandmother lets out a scream as she realizes him. During their encounter, the readers are given a small glimpse into the deranged mind of The Misfit. It is apparent that he has an upturned moral compass. He gains pleasure from committing crimes and the meanness that goes along with it. During his conversation with the Grandmother, he slowly has his men take members of the family out

The first person to come upon them was the Misfit, and his cronies. The grandmother recognizes the Misfit from the article and blurts out that he is the Misfit. In turn, it jeopardized the lives of the family. The Misfit tells his cronies to take Bailey and his son to the edge of the woods and kill them first, and then the wife, daughter, and infant son.

During the trip, the grandmother told stories of an old house that she had once visited in Tennessee. She made the stories of the old house so interesting, so much so, the children began to be interested and wanted to see it themselves. She even wrote down the streets and points of interest that they had passed. The children began to scream and whine because they wanted to see the house as well, especially the trap door where the gold may have possibly been kept. Bailey stopped the car because the children were screaming so loudly. After consideration, Bailey decided to turn around to try and find the house that the grandmother was talking

The family stops at a restaurant to get a bite to eat, and we find out that the two parents, Bailey and his wife, do not really care for the Grandmother. The Grandmother asks Bailey to dance, but he just declines and ignores her. Bailey’s wife does not seem to care either. They then continue on the road, and the Grandmother begins to tell the story of a house that she really enjoyed passing. She really wanted to go there, so she persuaded the children to want to go as well. After a long time of complaining, they finally convince their father to head back toward this house. They go down this road when all

***She lives with Bailey and his family. During the journey to florida the grandma conviences the family to visit an old house she remembers but on the way they get into a car crash. This lead this leads to the murder of the entire family. She remembered that the house was actually in tennesse where she origanilly tried to convence the family to go to instead of florida which they do every year. She tried to reason with the misfit but this angered him even more. Considers herself morally superior.