A Good Man Is Hard To Find By Conner O Flannery

Paper 1: A Good Man is Hard to Find The story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Conner O’ Flannery is based upon a fictional level. This story describes the main character known as “the grandmother” being an explanatory manipulative, self-centered, narrow woman. The grandmother is this way because she wants everything to go her as planned in her perspective and claims to say that all things go her way. The grandmother has planned for the family to go on a certain trip, although she decides to go elsewhere with her family and this leads to a difficult cause. Although later on her son refuses to go, yet she does not want to go to Florida. The grandmother is only trying to protect him from some criminal known as “the Misfit” who has murdered …show more content…
As I mentioned before, the criminal went through the same way where they had no idea they would massively bump into him. Another idea I would like to add is that this so called “lady” does not seem to care what her own family thinks rather than herself, because she decides where they go to for a vacation as well as them going to a plantation that ends on bad terms for them all. Especially for herself. She would rather put her life on risk of death and not be worried about her own family that would have also been killed as well. The grandmother would refer back to her past times saying this or that happened “in my time”. (pg.339). “Children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else.” (pg. 339). “If I could paint, I’d paint that picture myself.” (pg.339).The grandmother would mention. The children could never have their way of going anywhere neither do what they wanted to do. When the grandmother realized they were on their way to the plantation she fell asleep and woke up realizing that the family was not in Tennessee, yet in Georgia. The family was in a critical condition because without even knowing where they got into a crash a man was pulled out of a vehicle alone and went towards them and this man was known as “the Misfit”. The grandmother would constantly convey that all men in general were good and no matter how people are they may always find their superior way of thinking by doing something dreadful whether you are in a good or bad circumstance. Because of this statement, she learned the hard way by confessing to the misfit and by not acknowledging the presents nor thoughts of others. She thought people change the minute you think and only realize when they are being told by someone in