The family plans a trip, everyone wants to go to Florida except for the grandmother who wants to go to Tennessee. She tries to convince everyone that it would be a bad idea to drive down to Florida because there is a killer on the loose, The Misfit, who is headed down there. The family ignore the grandmother’s warning and decide to drive to Florida anyways. The children suggest for the grandmother to stay behind, but she decides to come on the trip. For the trip, the grandmother secretly brings along her cat, Pitty Sing. After a while on the road, the family decides to stop at The Tower for some food. There, the grandmother talks with a man named Red Sammy. The grandmother says how “people are certainly not nice like they used to be” and Red
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The grandmother decides not to mention that the plantation home is actually in Tennessee. A few minutes later, the family hears a car coming slowly towards them. From inside of a big black battered car, come three men. One of them is a fat boy in trousers and a red shirt, while another has on khaki pants and blue striped shirt. They both walk silently besides an older looking man who is wearing glasses and is wearing no shirt. The children scream to the men that they just had an accident. Soon after, the grandmother recognizes one of the men as The Misfit. The Misfit smiles at her and says it would have been better that she had not recognized him. The grandmother tries to kiss up to The Misfit and convince him not to kill her. The other men take the rest of the family out into the woods and kill them. The grandmother talks religiously to The Misfit but he does not listen. He explains how he was unfairly punished when he was a boy, accused of killing his father, but that he does not remember doing so. Since then, he believes that before a person dies, they should have as much fun doing whatever they want. He goes on to say that there is “no pleasure but meanness” (571). Afterwards, the grandmother has a moment of clarity and reaches out to The Misfit, calling him on of her
The grandmother decides not to mention that the plantation home is actually in Tennessee. A few minutes later, the family hears a car coming slowly towards them. From inside of a big black battered car, come three men. One of them is a fat boy in trousers and a red shirt, while another has on khaki pants and blue striped shirt. They both walk silently besides an older looking man who is wearing glasses and is wearing no shirt. The children scream to the men that they just had an accident. Soon after, the grandmother recognizes one of the men as The Misfit. The Misfit smiles at her and says it would have been better that she had not recognized him. The grandmother tries to kiss up to The Misfit and convince him not to kill her. The other men take the rest of the family out into the woods and kill them. The grandmother talks religiously to The Misfit but he does not listen. He explains how he was unfairly punished when he was a boy, accused of killing his father, but that he does not remember doing so. Since then, he believes that before a person dies, they should have as much fun doing whatever they want. He goes on to say that there is “no pleasure but meanness” (571). Afterwards, the grandmother has a moment of clarity and reaches out to The Misfit, calling him on of her