"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor

"A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
By: Flannery O'Connor

When I began reading this story I noticed that this is an extended family that did things together. They were taking a vacation and the grandmother wanted to go to Tennessee instead of Florida. Bailey, her son, stated that they were going to Florida. There were a lot of comical parts in this like when the girl June Star was making fun of her grandmother saying "she wouldn't stay home for a million bucks" (445), or when the grandmother hide the cat as she put him in the car.

I think that the grandmother was the main character in the story because see was always talking  mainly about this criminal called "The Misfit" and you knew more details about her then the others. I think she thought more of herself than anybody else. She acted like one of the kids when she want to go to Tennessee instead of Florida. She was always talking about what she thought as if that was all that mattered and what she said was always right.

She began to tell the kids of a house she recalled from her childhood that had a secret wooden panel, but as they begin to go down this road, to the house, she remembers that it wasn't in Georgia it was in Tennessee. Its ironic that when she realizes the location of the house with the secret panels she decides to keep it a secret. During this time is when the car wrecks. In the distance the see a car coming it's a hearse. This is when I realized death was coming.

When the men got out the grandmother had to tell "The Misfit" that she recognized him, because of course she couldn't be quit. The mother and Bailey was concerned about the kids and as John Wesley and Bailey go to the woods, with the other men , the mother starts sobbing. The whole time the grandmother was just talking to "The Misfit" about how he should pray and that he was a good man. She never worried as he made the kids and mother go into the woods to get killed. Then he kills the grandmother with three shots to the chest.

I think he is called the Misfit because he didn't fit in with his family just like the grandmother didn't fit in with hers. He doesn't remember what he did bad because it was always about him. Just like the grandmother didn't realize she got on the nerves of her family because it was always about her. The one thing I didn't understand the meaning to was when the Misfit said "she would have been a good women if somebody would have been there to shoot her every minute of her life."