Response To 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find'

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A Good Man is Hard to Find Responses 1. The description of the car foreshadows the type of people inside of it. The car is given a negative impression initially, described as “a big black battered hearselike automobile,”. The description of the woods expresses the eeriness of it and the comparison of it it a mouth suggests that those who enter the wood will not exit. 2. The grandma is dressed in very ornate clothing which illustrates her very lively and energetic nature. Her clothing expresses her belief in outward appearance influencing how other judge that individual. The mother is dressed in much more plain clothing which expresses how she is a more reserved and calm woman. 3. The grandmother considers a “good man” as in individual who she believes has a good, usually slightly wealthy, upbringing. She looks down on those she would consider “common folk”. She considers people who are genuinely kind to others and show respect good people. She tells the misfit that he is a good man in an attempt to save her life as she believes that a “good” man wouldn’t kill her. The misfit describes how he was unfairly punished. There is a possibility that he was a good man before all of that happened and that the system of punishment ruined him and turned him into a murderer.…show more content…
The Misfit expresses in this statement that the grandmother can act like a good woman if she feels it is necessary to. In the life threatening situation she was placed in, she expressed a very flattering attitude and complemented other. Although the misfit only saw the “good” side of the grandmother, he sees through her act and knows her true nature of being very judgmental of others and selfish and knows that if she weren’t under such threatening circumstances, she would not behave in the manner that she behaves in. The misfit believes that only when she is in a dangerous situation, the metaphorical person there to shoot her, she will act like a “good” woman but without such situation she will

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