A Good Man Is Hard to Find

This short story revels tremendous foreshadowing events that lead to the end. Foreshadowing is to show or indicate beforehand. Some people call it superstition or say their physic, but in the English world we call it foreshadowing. The grandmother which is one of the main characters in this story is the leader of most of the foreshowing events. The grandmother’s false hope in Jesus seemed to crumble throughout the story. The morning before the family’s vacation, they were all sitting in the living room. The dad was reading the sports section of the journal, the kids sitting on the floor, and the grandmother reading the newspaper. In the newspaper, the grandmother found an article that had her attention, and she wanted to show her son Baily. The article was about a man that called himself “The Misfit”, he got a loose from jail and was headed toward Florida. It bothered the grandmother more because the next morning they would be packing up, and on their way to Florida. The family was all packed up and ready to go the next morning. As they left the grandmother wrote the mileage on the car down, she thought it would be interesting to how many miles they had been when they got back. Later they stopped at The Tower for sandwiches; the grandmother was then still talking about “The Misfit”. She explained, “How everything was getting terrible, and “The Misfit” could be right there with them. Back on the road, the grandmother started talking about this plantation she been to, and the gold in it. She talked, and talked about it until Bailey finally agreed to turn around and go find it. The grandmother and her grandchildren were delighted as the dad turned and started for the dirt road. As they were going down the road further and further ,the grandmother was realizing the plantation she was talking about was in Tennessee. The grandmother didn’t tell anyone, because she felt embarrassed. Soon later the dad lost control and the family had a wreck. After they found that everyone was okay, and the grandmother was also they all sighed. Some minutes rolled over and she waged three men down, as they were talking to the men she realized she knew one of them. The man from the newspaper that she wouldn’t stop talking about was now in her face. She just talks and talks until finally the good man that she claimed he was shot and killed her. The article in the newspaper, the plantation, the wreck, and more all illustrate foreshadowing in this short story. To me all this events lead to the grandmother’s death at the end. It also occurred to me that the family was kind of tired of the grandmothers’ ways. Although she stated in the book a good man is hard to find, her son wasn’t a good one also because it was like he was waiting on her death.