from Georgia to Florida for a summer vacation, but his mother, wants him to drive to Tennessee. She argues that his children, June Star and John Wesley, have never been to Tennessee and shows him a news article about an escaped murderer called The Misfit last seen heading to Florida. The next day, Bailey ignores his mother insight, and takes his family to Florida anyway. The grandmother wakes up early to hide her cat, Pitty Sing, in a basket on the floor in the back of the car. When it’s time to
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frightens her son, Bailey, causing them to go off the road. This series of events leads to their conflict with the Misfit, and eventually their murder. She maintains her personal identity throughout the story regardless of the consequences of these actions. Even at the brink of death, she continues to uphold her belief that she is superior, going as far as to call herself a lady when the Misfit is going to kill her. The grandmother considers herself superior to Bailey and his family because she deems
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of morality throughout her story A Good Man is Hard to Find. Even though this short story had multiple characters within it, the two characters who turned this work of literature into an analytical study of human morals were the Grandmother and the Misfit. In many ways, the reader is vulnerable to the morals and beliefs demonstrated within this story. But one thing that O’Connor has made certain to prove is that moral standards are what define you in society, but they don’t define you as a human.
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“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’connor is a short story about a family whose vacation trip turns quickly into a tragical experience when meeting a runaway criminal known as the Misfit. The story mainly focuses on the definition of a “good man”, by exploring this the story reveals the gender roles that are being played in the story. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” shows how women are being treated and are portrayed in the story. The female characters in the story demonstrate how a woman
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Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: A Response. In Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” O’Conner used The Misfit to criticize the grandmother’s character after only just meeting her once. The grandmother character from the beginning to the end of the story is consistent and is a leading cause to her family’s death. The grandmother was the protagonist in this short story but was not necessarily the hero. She started off in the story as a nagger and unease person as she
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Is A Good Man That Hard To Find? I feel that O'Connor's story fits well with her statement about the South being "Christ-haunted." In fact, I feel that the Misfit, whom at first appeared to me to be a ruthless, sadistic murderer, actually ended up being even more of a 'good person' than any of the members of Bailey's family. I will analyze certain statements made in the story to make my point feasible. “The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.” First off
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She picks characters and describe them to a point where of question that they really are who they say. There are a lot of religious references also related to good versus evil. The Misfit was a killer who did not understand why he was incarcerated but refused to pray and have belief. On the other hand Pointer was trying to sell the Bible and acted religious to get to women and steal from them as he did with Joy. Flannery O’Connor’s
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Everyone wanted to go to Florida except the grandmother, she wanted to go to Tennessee instead. The grandmother tried to change her son mind every chance she get. She handed her son bailey a news paper explaining to him about this man that is called the misfit and how he escape from prison and he is headed to Florida. Nobody was taking her seriously. The next day everybody got in the car especially the grandmother she seem to be having a good attitude toward the trip. She secretly brought her cat Pitty
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from Joy to Hulga because she believed it was an ugly name, eventually, Joy/Hulga will have an ugly realization about her moral character. In the short story, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, it is immediately established that the bad guy on the run, “The Misfit”, received his name for a reason. Throughout these short stories,
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the very beginning of the story, we as readers find the grandmother quite irritating. Starting with her reading the newspaper about the Misfit being in Florida, she comes off not very sincere and very manipulative to the family to get her way. She states it would bother her conscience if she took her kids out on vacation with a criminal on the loose like the Misfit. Another way that shows the grandmother’s true character is by the way she dresses. She dresses very elaborate
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