The short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O ‘Conner, is a tale about a family traveling to Florida for vacation. The family is made up of six members, being: the grandmother, a young girl named June Star, a young boy called John Wesley, a baby, the mother of the children, and Bailey, the father of the children. Throughout the narrative, the family faces arguments and trials and ends up crossing paths with an escaped convict, the misfit, and his two sidekicks. As the story progresses, the grandmother uses many forms of manipulation aiming to reach her own selfish outcomes. However, in the end, her tactics turn out to be fatal when she is unable to sway the misfit from killing her. The manipulation of the grandmother is a reoccurring
