Foreshadowing The Misfit

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is a very compelling short story written by Flannery O’Connor. In this short story Flannery O’Connor tells a story of a man (Bailey) who plans on taking his family on a summer vacation in Florida, but the grandmother disagrees and insist that they go to Tennessee instead. She then tries to persuade Bailey to take the family to Tennessee by telling him that his two children had never been to Tennessee before and by showing him a news article, which showed that an escaped murderer called the Misfit was last seen headed to Florida. Bailey pays his mother no mind and takes his family to Florida anyway. Along the way the grandmother mistakenly kicks

The line that summarizes the grandmother in the story “ A Good Man is Hard to Find” is “ she would have been a good woman if someone was there to shoot her all her life.”The grandmother is a typical human being. In many aspects she is selfish. She wants her way and is willing to do anything to get it. For example, once she knows that she is unable to convince her grandson to visit the house which she describes in the story, she shifts her attention to the grandchildren.

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a short story in which Flannery O’Connor, the author, presents a tale of good, evil, and divine grace. The grandmother, who is considered to be the main character, tries to convince the family to go to Tennessee after reading an article about someone who called himself ‘The Misfit.’ The family wants to go to Florida, but the grandmother tells the family she wants to avoid a run in with The Misfit. After their stop in Georgia for food, they find out that she was not wrong. The short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a grandmother who is manipulative until her very last breath.

Unlike most loving, caring grandmothers, the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is extremely selfish and

     Flannery O’Connor’s “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” depicts a family’s encounter with a criminal escaped from a federal penitentiary and their essential relinquishment of life. The family that the story surrounds has planned a trip to Florida for a family vacation. Knowing but unconcerned about the criminal at large, also known as the Misfit, the family voyages onward towards their destination until the trip is abruptly stopped by a totally unnecessary exploration down an unkempt, hilly and dangerous road. The dangerous road combined with the unsuspecting attack of the driver from the grand mothers cat, Pitty Sing, lands the family in a ten-foot deep ditch and in need of help. The

The grandmother proves her stubbornness when she causes the accident that brings them to the misfit and doesn’t feel the need to admit her wrongs to Bailey and the

“A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the short story written by Flannery O’Connor describes the events that unfold about a family who ventures out on a road trip to Florida. The grandmother who resides with Bailey, her son, and his family, disapprove of the destination, and attempts to persuade Bailey to head to east Tennessee instead. Upon learning of an escaped prisoner, the Misfit, the grandmother tries to convince Bailey and his wife to alter the plans, but they disregard her pleas. There were several events that occurred during the road trip that eventually resulted in an encounter that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat.

When the men are shooting her family, she only tries to safe herself. Continually saying “[you] wouldn’t shoot a lady” (214) until she gets shot, is only referring to herself. She calls for Bailey only a few times before she gives up on that as well. She makes no move to stop The Misfit from shooting anyone except herself. The only other living thing she seems to truly care about is Pitty Sing. Her cat is the one that caused the accident when he “sprang onto Bailey’s shoulder” (212). She refused to leave it at home alone for three days and now the cat will be alone forever because she is dead. The grandmother is abrasive, as opposed to The Misfit, who at least doesn’t let the other family members shoot each other and gives the children a parent to go

She dresses up in a dress and hat so “in case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (O’Connor 138). Also, she insists on bringing her cat and wants to take a trip to her old house. She is so focused on herself and is a selfish woman at heart because her decisions ultimately place her family in danger. The detour places them in the presence of the Misfit, and the cat, that she insisted on bringing, “clings to [Bailey’s] neck like a caterpillar” which causes the crash (O’Connor 144). It is obvious that the grandmother is self centered.

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor published in 1953. It tells a story of a young family going on vacation when the grandmother, (which whom the story is based around.) sees an article in the newspaper about a serial killer on the loose called The Misfit. While the family is on their road trip there is an accident that leaves them on the side of the road. This is where they meet The Misfit and his goons. The author briefly explores The Misfit past and the circumstances of how

The grandmother decides to hide her cat in a basket and brings it along on the trip, even though her son Bailey did not want the cat to go. As they are driving the grandmother decides she want to make a detour, knowing her son won’t want to, she gets her grandchildren involved by telling them a lie, “There was a secret panel in this house; she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through, but it was never found,” (O’Connor, 1953, p.

A Good Man Is Hard To Find written by Flannery O’Connor is about a family who are on there way out for a vacation and run into a famous killer named the Misfit, who along with a couple other criminals have broken out of Jail. The Misfit along with his co-conspirator toward the end of the story end up killing the family in the woods. The climax of the story is the conversation between the grandmother and the Misfit, the grandmother is trying to argue for her life by explaining to the killing that at some point he was a good more that was turned down the wrong path. While the Misfit questions the grandmother about human experience that can turn a good person into a bad one. Author William Bonney in his Academic Journal wrote about the moral structure

Looking at “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the reader is introduced to a family very early on in the story. With a particular character standing out, the grandmother. Her

The short story, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, begins in Georgia. Bailey decides it’s time to take his family on a driving vacation to Florida. His wife and kids are preparing for the adventure but his mother, the grandmother, wishes to go somewhere else. In the attempt to get her way, the grandmother notifies the family of this fugitive criminal known as The Misfit, who is thought to be wandering around Florida. Nobody gave consideration to what the old woman said.

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