Hard To Find Grandmother

For example, Bailey does not want her to carry the cat to their journey. However, grandmother does not listen to him and she hides the cat inside the car in a basket and thus secretly brings the cat along with her. On their way, she also wants to go and visit the old plantation even though Bailey does not agree to this. In order to see that she gets what she wants, she talks to the children and convinces them to tell Bailey to do as she wishes. The author writes “There was a secret panel in this house…. and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found . . .” (O’Connor 45). Grandmother says these words craftily in her attempts to convince Bailey to drive to the old plantations even though she knows that she is not telling the truth. Evidently, she leads the family into a dangerous tour drive. In this tour, the family ends up having an accident due to the Pitty Sing cat sneaking out of the car, leaping on Bailey who loses control of the car. She avoids responsibility by pretending to be hurt. Her actions put the family in dangerous situations.

The grandmother is the master manipulator in this story. She tries to get anything she wants even if it means putting others’ lives in danger and by manipulating others to make her point. The grandmother after several attempts of trying to get attention from her son, Bailey and her daughter in-law, but to no avail, she decided to go see a plantation knowing that Bailey would not pay attention to her, she then turns to the children and lies about a secret panel, “There was a secrete panel in this house, and the story went that all the family’s silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found” (O’Connor 312), she knows if she lies to the kids it will cause them to throwing a fit in the car which will in turn draw Bailey’s attention to

The narrator starts the story giving background information about the grandmother and her son, Bailey. The narrator explains that the "grandmother didn't want to go to Florida" (320). Although a major conflict could result from her dislike of the family's choice of vacation spots, it does not. When

Similar to every character in any given work of literature, the grandmother from “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” had several attributes, both pleasing and vexatious. Of all her many qualities, I greatly valued her ability to consistently speak her mind, even in the face of danger. Never was she shy to give way to her true emotions and allow those around her to view her perspective on the events occurring within her life, a rarity in today’s society. Additionally, it was made obvious how deeply she cared for her family in her desperate attempt to persuade The Misfit to return to the “good man” she assumed he once was and therefore permit the family to safely escape the dangerous predicament. Likewise, the grandmother was a Christian woman that

O'Connor does the same thing here; the grandmother's first action was to convince her son, Bailey, into going were she wanted to go, a selfish act, not a trait that we see a grandmother having. Also she thought out a plan to get what she wanted by acting as if she cared about her family's safety. "Now looks here, Bailey........ see here, read this...Here this fellow that calls himself the Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed towards Florida and you read here what is says he did to these people(328)." The grandmother's relationship right away to the reader is one that can not be trusted. Throughout the story you now question the grandmother's intentions, are they honest or selfish.

Bailey and his wife are up in the front seats of the car, and since the grandmother is in the back with the two kids, where her sphere of socialization and influence are more prominent, the kids are learning her bad habits after all through imitation and desensitization. All the settings are revolving around the grandmother, the protagonist, and they are placing her on a road to hell, paved in her own narcissism and condescending behavior.

The grandmother tells the children a story about an old plantation that is along the route they are travelling. However, while searching for this plantation, the grandmother realizes that the “horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (O’Connor 12). She is too vain to admit her mistake and this caused the family to be in a horrible accident which leads to even more

She tries to backer her demands by inducing herself and her family that her way is the most perfect way and positively the primary way. The grandmother is dead situated to change her family's escape objective as she tries to control her kid into taking off to Tennessee as opposed to Florida. She began endeavoring to make Bailey, her tyke, feel remorseful about the adolescents' wellbeing. The grandmother says that "she couldn't answer to her spirit in case she took the youths in a heading where there was a convict allowed to move around freely. " She is not productive with Bailey, so she uses the same tomfooleries on her young lady in-law who doesn't even remember her.

Your analysis really caught my attention; you made good points, however; I disagree that the grandmother was kind-hearted, she tries to deceive Bailey and act like she really cares about her family’s safety, but in reality, she was only doing that to get Bailey to change his mind about Florida. Even though she worries her cat would injure itself, she still disobeyed her son’s wishes when the narrator says, “Her son, Bailey, didn't like to arrive at a motel with a cat” (O’Connor). The grandmother knew it was wrong to bring the cat; that is why she hid the basket. Towards the end of her life she finally shows another side of her when she yells Jesus’s name, it was as if the manipulative and deceitful woman disappeared and a religious woman

The grandmother has many options to tell the family that the house is actually in Tennessee and not Georgia, however she does not want to tell them that which displays her ignorance towards the family. She only wants to think of herself in this instance as opposed to the feelings that the family will have towards her if she tells the truth. In this instance, the grandmother is also showing that she wants to be innocent and not cause any issues, but she has already caused too many issues. Bailey is upset with her ignorance and only thinking about herself when she does not just go with the flow instead she is determined to take the family to the house in Georgia that is not actually there but in Tennessee. It seems as if Bailey heads towards Georgia just to make her happy and not have her being annoying if they do not go

The grandmother is an old woman who likes it her way or no way. She does this by being talkative and manipulating others to do what she wants. As said on page 860, "You wouldn't shoot a lady, would you?" the Grandmother said and removed a clean handkerchief from

The horrible thought the grandmother had before the accident, where she remembered so vividly the secret panel was not in Georgia but in Tennessee putting her family in danger just because she wanted to go visit that old

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.

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 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