Freftag Pyramid for "A Good Man Is Hard to Finf

Freytag Pyramid for “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

4. Crisis Point
4. Crisis Point

3. Rising Action
3. Rising Action

2. Exposition A. Setting B. Characterization
2. Exposition A. Setting B. Characterization

5. Falling Action
5. Falling Action

1. Unstable Situation 2. Unstable Situation

6. Denouement
6. Denouement

7. Climax
7. Climax

8. Title effectiveness
8. Title effectiveness

1. Unstable Situation: The conflict in this story is the grandmother being unloving and manipulative. She always thinks she’s always right and never wrong. Some examples from the story are as fallow: “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Baily’s mind” (pg. 261). A grandmother is a person that would care for others and not just herself, in this story the grandmother is self-center and only cares about her needs. 2. Exposition A. Setting: 1. Historical era: America during the 1950’s “Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do.” (pg.263) the grandmother is talking about the African Americans as they are inferior and don’t much rights. This signifies that the story is taken place during the time of the civil rights movement which was in the 1950’s.
2. Actual time: Throughout the day, during spring. “The next morning the grandmother…” (pg262) “She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, neither too hot nor to cold” (pg.262)
3. Actual place: Georgia “Let’s go thru Georgia fast so we won’t have to look at it much” (pg.262)
4. Social environment: Upper class “The grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print” (pg.262) 5. Atmosphere: The atmosphere of the story is dangerous,