A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Flannery O Connor

Grandma Said to the detective “Shotgun Cheatom is a Civil War hero, he save millions of people.” How ever she also said that “Effie Wilcox is a lier” While she is the one that is really the lier. Grandma said to the delivery man “There is a mouse in my milk delivered by you” While what really had happened is she caught a dead mouse in a mouse trap and put it in there for some random reason. Grandma Said to the police That she was not boarding fish on the sheriff’s boat and even though she lied on top of that she stole the sheriff’s boat. Grandma Dowdel is not the average woman you want to trust at

In this story, the grandmother seems to consider herself as the leader of the family. She seems to think of herself as having higher standards than other people, and therefore, she is quick to pass judgment on others. For example, she tells the children’s mother and father, “You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be bored. They never have been to Tennessee” (O’Connor 436).” The grandmother is a very opinionated, talkative, narcissistic, and manipulative woman who frequently controls the other family members. She is the one who calls attention to the fact that a dangerous criminal is on the loose and is located on the route to Florida. Apparently the grandmother thinks this information can compel the father and mother to change their traveling plans. The grandmother seems to cares only about her own wants and desires and has little interest in the wants and desires of

In the story A Good Man is Hard to Find the grandma is in a time of fear and panic as her life is in danger. As the misfit is threatening the grandma she asks the question “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?”. (O’Connor 148) The misfit responds with “I would hate to have to.” (O’Connor 148) Once she realizes that her life is truly

She thinks she can fool a serial killer into letting her live even though he’s already had her entire family killed. The argument between Grandmother and the misfit is attributed to Jesus, belief in consequences, after committing acts that are bad. She tried to convince the killer that he was a good man. Good men don’t kill little old ladies. God fearing men don’t kill little old ladies.

The grandmother is a good person on the surface—at least the community thinks so—but she is also ‘mean.’ She forces her family to obey her; she sees them as an extension of herself; and she seizes ‘every chance to change’ reality. Because she convinces her son to turn the car toward the house with the ‘secret panel,’ causing the family to meet The Misfit, she seals everyone’s death. She tries to adopt the Misfit, giving him well-meaning advice and false love. (21)

The grandma, in O’Connor’s piece, never learns and never has a moment of clarity. This could be because of her old age and lifelong racists views, but it could have been the authors intention to end the story negatively, to end it in a relief from the oppression of racism. O’Connor ends the story with “’She would of been a good woman,’ The Misfit said, ‘if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life’” (O’Connor 13). This is his way of expressing his views on race and those who express superiority.

Panic gripped the grandmother when she realized she knew who the Misfit was, and that she was going to die. Her persuasion tactics were not as cunning as Marion’s, but she tried her best to point out her importance as a lady and complimented him, “You don't look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!”(O’Connor). The grandmother begged for her own life to be saved, but didn’t mention the rest of her family members besides yelling, "Bailey Boy!"(O’Connor) pathetically after her son. Terror brought out the grandmother’s persuasiveness and the use of mystery and suspense heightened the characters’

The grandmother being a manipulative woman doesn’t value her life as it is, but longs for how it was in the past. “People are certainly not nice like they used to be” (298). The grandmother decides it would be better to go on a trip to Tennessee. After reading the newspaper and finding out The Misfit escaped from Federal Penn and is heading to Florida. She tries to persuade the family to change their plans, but they decide to go to Florida anyways. The grandmother desperately wants the children to see an old plantation that she visited as a child in Toombsboro. Unfortunately, while looking for the plantation, the family ends up in the path of The Misfit. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Connie goes to the drive in restaurant with her friends, where she comes across Arnold Friend. As Connie walks by Arnold Friend he says “Gonna get you baby” (371). This quote is a warning to Connie that he will come get her and hurt her. Connie stays home Sunday while her father; mother and sister go to a barbecue that afternoon. While she’s left alone Arnold and his friend Ellie come over to try and convince Connie to go on a drive with them. Both of these stories have paths that eventually lead to these characters to face evil.

This story has numerous resemblances and distinctions between The Misfit and the Grandmother. A case of this, in "A Good Man is Hard to Find," includes the Grandmother's solid, southern legacy. As indicated by Stephen Bandy, she discloses to her grandchildren a story in which a watermelon was eaten up by "a nigger kid (Bandy, 108)." in this day and age, grandmas are typically decent and sweet, yet O'Connor's grandma is extremely manipulative, and a bossy lady that talks too much for the greatness of herself and her family. Bandy pointed out that she had too much pride, she was self-centered and was obsessed with her outer appearance (Bandy 109). She goes out of her way to dress up, although the rest of the family dresses casual and

As story continues, they waited for another car to come their way, the grandmother stood and waved both armed dramatically to attract their attention. This is foreseen that the grandmother is responsible for all the things that are about to happen. Later in the story, the grandmother also tells the Misfit, she recognized him. This is also another turning point in the story. The Misfit states, “but he would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t of reckernized me” (Flannery, 10).

and with these words, the family’s fate is sealed. The grandmother, however, does not realize this and continues to plead with The Misfit. She states she knows he is a good man and that he does not look like he has common blood. Even as The Misfit proceeds to murder her family members one by one, the grandmother continues to plead for her life resorting to every tactic that comes to mind. Finally, the grandmother states, “Why you’re one of my babies.

The grandmother demands that the household should drive to Tennessee because she wanted to visit some of her connections. She also is a manipulator in a way that she insists her family to change the plan. The grandma references that the Misfit is heading toward the Sunshine State, where the family is traveling. The misfit is a wanted criminal who has escaped the federal penitentiary for killing his father, which he claims it is not true. As O’Connor continues the story, we learn about the distress the grandmother, the protagonist, puts her family through and the major role she plays.

The grandmother is so focused on the escape of the Misfit that she recognizes him as soon as he is out of the car and looking at them. "You're The Misfit!" she said. "I recognized you at once!". The main conflict between the grandmother and the Misfit revolves around Jesus.

The grandmother is absolutely desperate. She is often critized for not doing more and for pleading for the man not to kill her, but it is obvious that she is trying to convince him that he’s not the type of person to be killing people. She is a fragile old lady and this really is the only thing she can do to save her family. None of the other family members even attempt to do anything to save themselves or each other. She being held at gun point, so the only option is to talk to the killer and convince him not to kill

The grandmother is the central character in the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor. She is also a very well rounded and dynamic character. She shows various characteristics and reveals various remarks as they story progresses. Some of her qualities include selfish and a pushy person. She is also kind of manipulator in a way that she insists her family to change the plan. At the beginning of the story when we first realize her desire to visit her childhood house, she is being a very selfish person. Examining her conversation with her son Bailey, the grandmother is moreover a pushy person. She is convincing Bailey to change the trip plan according to her need only and which will