It was in fact her own reinforcement that prompted the family to stray from the main path in search of some false Misfit. There were hints to the reader at the beginning of the story, that while on their vacation to Florida the family is destined to cross lost treasure. This decision was a deadly one. It caused the family to fall into the path of the Misfit. For example, “There is an inmate fellow that escaped from Federal Pen and headed toward Florida.
Here he says that weather you kill people or take tire of car you will be punished anyway and when you will be punished you will forgot what you did and will be punished for no reason. Secondly, Misfit was forced to kill the family because they recognized him and he was scared that if he leaves them they will call cops. He didn’t wanted to the killings , but circumstances made him do the killings. He wanted to help them because they had an accident
O’Connor’s theology can be seen in the portrayal of the main characters, The Misfit and the grandmother, in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. In this story The Misfit, an escaped convict and murderer, represents the epitome of supreme evil. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the story of a family’s twisted vacation that results in each one of the family members deaths. The story’s setting begins in Atlanta, Georgia with a family argument about where to go on vacation. Everyone except the grandmother, a selfish religious old woman, agrees on Florida as their destination.
Dear Prince, I beg of thee to drop or even minimize the charges towards Romeo Montague. Please do this task I ask you because even though Romeo killed Tybalt, it was out of revenge considering Tybalt was the one that killed. Tybalt also wanted to fight with Romeo, so Tybalt started this whole thing. The two families always hated each other, so it’s not like Romeo did it for no reason. I believe Romeo killed Tybalt because Tybalt was the killer of his best friend Mercutio.
She likes to criticize others such as when she did so to the mother questioning her on the choice to always go to Florida instead of changing it up a bit for the kids. After they leave the food stop the grandmother woke up from a catnap and has a flashback of a dirt road she believed to recognize that belonged to a house she used to
Symbolism in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” In a superficial view, Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is no more than a simple story of a family travelling to Florida for the vacation and facing their last moment after confronting the escaped criminal, Misfit. However, it contains numerous foreshadows that allude to the ending of the story and O’Connor’s tremendous use of symbolism implicated in the conversations between characters at various parts of the story. It is very surprising how the author uses this symbolism and allusive descriptions to teach us a veiled lesson. One important thing needed to catch the symbolism of this story is the understanding of characters. Grandmother, the leading character of the story, is a lady who has a South-heritage deep in her heart and admires the glorious time-honored tradition of South.
In this short story I think that Flannery O’Conner is trying is trying to “convert” people who have not found Christ over to Christianity. I believe that O’Conner was a strong believer in Christianity. In this story she has a grandmother trying to convert a criminal that escaped from the Federal Penitentiary over to Christ before she is killed. In the short story a family of six was preparing for a trip to Florida when the grandmother finds an article about an escaped convict headed to Florida. The grandmother is persistent on not going to Florida as they have been there before states, “’The children have been to Florida before,’ the old lady said.
The story follows the point of view of grandmother, as she accompanies her family on a roadtrip to Florida. Along the way, they are met with stops and decisions, where they eventually meet their demise. O’Connor elegantly calls on various elements of fiction to assist in her story telling. O’Connor uses setting to bring the audience into a story that contains remnants of their own personal life. Through her clever use of irony, O’Connor is able to create situations that keeps the reader enticed.
Finding one’s moment of grace is challenging because it requires someone to be faced with their true identity and the choice to change who they are. After the person achieves their moment of grace, it transforms them into a new person by incorporating the aspects of inner peace and happiness. In, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” an ordinary Georgia family began their summer vacation road trip to Florida. Half way through the trip, the grandmother makes up a story about an old plantation with a secret panel, to excite the children and cause them to beg the parents to visit it. After a trip down a dirt road, the grandmother suddenly realizes the old plantation isn’t in Georgia, but in Tennessee.
Kethia Joseph 3/7/2011 “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by FLANNERY O’CONNOR A family of six is planning a vacation trip to Florida. The family consists of the grandmother, the father, the mother and three children. The grandmother tried to convince her son to go to Tennessee instead of Florida. She is concerned about a criminal on the loose who is also going to Florida. Nobody listens to her and the trip will end up in tragedy.