The Grandma: The grandma in Flannery O'Conner's short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is created to resemble the stereotype of a classy, obnoxious, southern, old woman that everybody seems to have in a family. She thinks that she is better than others and cares for nobody but herself. In other words she is extremely hypocritical because she puts on a face and pretends to be this high class, posh woman when all that she is Bailey's mother. Some argue that she had a moment of grace at the end of the story but I argue that she was just trying to convince the misfit to let her go. For she barely acknowledged that her own grandchildren were about to be killed.
Idgie and Ruth are business partners, best friends, and if you have read the book then in the eyes of many, lesbians. We do not meet Idgie until she is nearing the end of her early childhood and reaching the stage known as the middle childhood. Idgie is different, a tomboy to the extreme and her family wholeheartedly accepts it. The most accepting is her brother, Buddy, her very first best friend. Idgie experiences a terrible heartbreak during her young developmental stage.
Everyone except the grandmother, a selfish religious old woman, agrees on Florida as their destination. She tries to persuade her family to abandon their original plans, saying that there is an escaped killer on the loose, foreshadowing events that lead to the family’s murder. The grandmother is central to the rest of the story’s plot involving an accident where the family’s car flips resulting in a confrontation with the escaped convict, The Misfit. The grandmother, pointing out The Misfit’s identity, essentially dooms herself and her entire family. As a last plea to The Misfit, the grandmother attempts to manipulate his evil motives with a transcendence of religion that fails and ultimately drives him to murder her.
Her mother was very disappointed in her and treated her without respect or caring. Obed was in need of a women to take care of his little daughter after his wife died and saved his cousin from her situation. She was greatful for how he treated her and the fancy room with four walls he put her in. She wanted a baby more than anything in the world and now she had Precious. Obed treated her with respect and spoiled her by giving her extra money to buy something for herself.
The mother may be the birth mother and be related by blood but she sure doesn’t show any love toward her handicapped daughter that she abandoned. The dull and tasteless tone/style of the story express the love between Linda and her adopted and birth family. The tone never really changes; it always stays in a slightly sad and depressing language. Through out the whole paper there is very little description. When Linda is talking about how clean her mother Betty tried the kids and how dirty the dad always got them, she just says exactly that and nothing more; “Betty was always trying to keep us clean, and Albert was always getting us
Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a story about a southern family and their conflict they are faced with while driving down south to Florida. Morals are challenged face to face at its finest in this short story when two very different groups of people happen to cross paths resulting in a tragedy. The grandmother in the story consistently uses the word “good” many times throughout the story, specifically when she tells Red Sammy he is a good man and of course the Misfits also. The word good was used for the wrong meaning by the grandmother; Her judgment was poor and unwise which ended up costing her family and herself their lives. People are all different in their own ways, not everyone has the same perspectives on life and moral
Also, she insists on unnecessarily bringing her cat along for the three day trip though she knows her son Bailey does not like traveling with pets. The grandmother’s badgering takes place in front of the grandchildren and she undermines her son’s role as a parent when she says “’ "The children have been to Florida before…you all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have been to east Tennessee’” (O’Connor 186). So after all of this “the next morning the grandmother was the first one in the car, ready to go”, in her Sunday best no less, a clear act of spite because her efforts have not changed her son’s resolve to go to Florida. In his critical essay “Secular Meaning in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'” Stanley Renner says “the grandmother is a caricature of the South, but in the way that her every impulse is tainted by instinctive, unconscious egoism, she is also a droll personification of human nature as we have come to understand it in the wake of Darwin and Freud; she is, then, Reality” (Renner).
“How Far She Went” by Mary Hood In “How Far She Went,” Mary Hood writes about a southern grandmother who is pushed to the limits in order to protect the delinquent granddaughter, whom she is raising. The teenage granddaughter expresses disdain for having to stay with her in the rural south and runs off, only to return on the back of a motorcycle with a group of marauding men. The grandma demands that she return to her side and informs the men that the girl is under age, and they could go to prison. The men take offense at the threat, and a vengeful pursuit of the grandma and grandchild ensues. They manage to flee together, but ultimately the grandma must kill her beloved dog in order to protect them both.
Then there is Lexi Grey she is Meredith’s half sister and she is nothing like her though. She have a few problems of her own her father is a drunk and her mother died. She is a sweet girl and does not like to give out bad news. The male doctors of this show is some what the same is many ways and also in love with one of the females doctors. Derek and Mark are in love with the Grey’s sister.
What Defines Your Role In Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” the psychological and social conditions of the characters start off with a tremendous amount of complexity and unknown factors. Throughout the play things become uncovered which results in major controversy. Mrs. Alving, a woman with much pride, is a typical good wife who will go through any extremity to have her family perceived as anything but dysfunctional. For a short period of time Mrs. Alving left her duties as a wife but soon returned back with her husband even through the sinful demeanor that causes marital turmoil for the rest of their lives. After some time of internally struggling to decide whether to tell a major bombshell to Pastor Manders, she confides in the Pastor revealing the unspoken truth of the Alving’s servant Regina.