A Good Man Is Hard To Find Grandmother Analysis

The Grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” The grandmother in Flannery O’Connor short story” A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is a women, who think and talk about herself as a lady. But is she? She is trying to influence her son’s family decision. Providing arguments why not to go to Florida, why Tennessee, where she wants to go would be better choice. Her arguments don’t change trip destination, but on the way down to Florida she invents little lie and uses the children to force side trip on a dirt road to a house she visited in her past. She never stops talking, pointing out sights and scenes around the road, giving driving advice to her son Bailey. She has opinion about everything and is not afraid to share it with anyone who will listen even restaurant owner at their lunch stop. The grandchildren don’t have much respect for her. It could be seen from the way they talk about her in her presence even in front of their parents. But she is the only person in the story who corrects the children behavior. She doesn’t allow …show more content…
They are made out of Granma dresses, Grandpa shirts even a piece of Great Grandpa uniform. They were made by hand by her grandmother, her mother and aunt. And Dee wants them. She doesn’t want her sister to have them, because “Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they’d be in rags” (245). She wants to hang them in her apartment as a decoration. She wants to preserve them. To her “they’re priceless” (245). And nobody else in her family seems to understand her point. They are made by her family, from clothing they wore, made by hand. On her visit, even she didn’t get the quilts, she collected couple items hand made by her uncles to decorate her apartment. And when she is driving away, her mother and sister are sitting in front of the house, enjoying the time. And if they choose to they can make more quilts and together with them memories to keep