I decided to do my character analysis on the grandmother from the short story ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’ The story starts off as a family getting ready for their road trip to Florida. The main characters are the grandmother (whose name is never said in the story), the mother, Bailey, June Star and John Westley. The Grandmother wants to go to Tennessee but everyone wants to go to Florida. Even though they tell the grandmother she doesn’t have to go she still decides to join them. The trip soon takes a turn for the worse when they run into The Misfit a psychopath on the run from the cops. The grandmother is the backbone of the story to me since so many things she did lead to the tragic ending. The grandmother was very Manipulative, selfish and ignorant and because of these traits she cost her family their lives.
From the very beginning of the story we see the grandmother’s manipulative ways as she tells the children’s mother “You ough to take them somewhere else for a change so they can see different parts of the world and be abroad. They never have been to east Tennessee.(267)” …show more content…
The grandmother thought the Misfit looked familiar and when she finally recognized who exactly he was she yelled to him “You’re the Misfit! I recognize you at once! (263)” This showed how ignorant or maybe just naïve the grandmother was most people would not say they knew who he was because it might be the little hope they have of making it out the situation alive. Even after the Misfit takes Bailey and John in the woods and gun shots are heard the grandmother still naively tries to reason with the Misfit saying “I know you wouldn’t shoot a lady! I know you come from nice people! (263) Her words have no effect on the Misfit and when she touched his shoulder it sent him over the edge and he shot