Driving trips can be one of the most relaxing and scenic adventures one can experience in their lifetime. Being a young boy, my dad and I drove to Canada from Texas which opened my horizons on America’s beautiful landscape. From the major metropolitans to the simple country side has brought different and exciting views that one can only imagine if not experienced properly. The short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, tells a different tale of a trip that has gone horribly wrong. The road trip functions as a symbol of this journey through optimism, conflict, and despair.
The road trip is symbolized through optimism. Optimism is defined in the short story as the grandmother reminisces on the fluid term of “a good man” as she mentions an old suitor, Edgar Adkins Teagarden, who brought her a watermelon every weekend. She reckons she could have married him because he was a gentleman. Although, there is clear evidence that the grandmother suffers from nostalgia, she is hopeful that the journey will prove promising. This is demonstrated when Red Sammy and the grandmother recall a time when people could be trusted. …show more content…
The grandmother’s internal conflict of a past long ago is described as she illustrates to John Wesley and June Star of an old plantation mansion with its walls filled with precious silver. This stirs an emotion of adventure within the children at Bailey’s disapproval. Bailey is later convinced by the grandmother to take the wrong turn in search of the mansion, knowingly that she has no self-awareness and harps constantly about the inadequacy of the present and superiority of the past. The disillusioned grandmother soon realizes she isn’t in Tennessee and causes an uproar resulting in an
The road trip is symbolized through optimism. Optimism is defined in the short story as the grandmother reminisces on the fluid term of “a good man” as she mentions an old suitor, Edgar Adkins Teagarden, who brought her a watermelon every weekend. She reckons she could have married him because he was a gentleman. Although, there is clear evidence that the grandmother suffers from nostalgia, she is hopeful that the journey will prove promising. This is demonstrated when Red Sammy and the grandmother recall a time when people could be trusted. …show more content…
The grandmother’s internal conflict of a past long ago is described as she illustrates to John Wesley and June Star of an old plantation mansion with its walls filled with precious silver. This stirs an emotion of adventure within the children at Bailey’s disapproval. Bailey is later convinced by the grandmother to take the wrong turn in search of the mansion, knowingly that she has no self-awareness and harps constantly about the inadequacy of the present and superiority of the past. The disillusioned grandmother soon realizes she isn’t in Tennessee and causes an uproar resulting in an