Greed In A Good Man Is Hard To Find
In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, a family of four decides to go on a vacation joined by the grandmother. The family decides to take a road trip to Florida, but the grandmother shows the family the newspaper with the headlines stating there are three loose criminals also going there. The criminals are led by one who calls himself “the Misfit.” The vacation to Florida continues despite the grandmother’s disagreement and plea to go to Tennessee to see an old house the grandmother remembers from her childhood. As the family begins their vacation, the grandmother asks her son Bailey if he can bring her cat, a question Bailey quickly rejects. However, the grandmother sneaks her cat in the car anyway. While on the drive, the cat jumped out of a small basket the grandmother kept
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The Misfit keeps the grandmother as his two accomplices’ handle the rest of the family. He explained to the grandmother “’it would’ve been better if you hadn’t reckernized me’” (492). As the time passes, the desperation in the grandmother’s survival grows. She begins to tell the Misfit that Jesus will forgive him for what he has done and repent all his sins. As he disagrees in self-doubt she takes the chance to save herself and explains it’s never too late all he needs to do is pray. The Misfit quickly acknowledged the grandmother did not want to help change his life, instead, she was looking for a way to escape from him shooting her. The Misfit explained to his men “’she would of been a good woman…if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life’” (493). As the Misfit shot the grandmother, she fell back with her eyes open, staring at the cloudless sky, smiling. One by one Bailey, the Grandmother, and the Misfit rule out why there are no “good” men in the story through their behavior foreshadowing their
The Misfit keeps the grandmother as his two accomplices’ handle the rest of the family. He explained to the grandmother “’it would’ve been better if you hadn’t reckernized me’” (492). As the time passes, the desperation in the grandmother’s survival grows. She begins to tell the Misfit that Jesus will forgive him for what he has done and repent all his sins. As he disagrees in self-doubt she takes the chance to save herself and explains it’s never too late all he needs to do is pray. The Misfit quickly acknowledged the grandmother did not want to help change his life, instead, she was looking for a way to escape from him shooting her. The Misfit explained to his men “’she would of been a good woman…if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life’” (493). As the Misfit shot the grandmother, she fell back with her eyes open, staring at the cloudless sky, smiling. One by one Bailey, the Grandmother, and the Misfit rule out why there are no “good” men in the story through their behavior foreshadowing their