The Grandmother Character Analysis Essay

Throughout the story the character who seem to have the whole attention is the grandmother. She is the main protagonist of this sad story. The grandmother has an awful attitude and behavior which it creates a negative atmosphere for the other person around her. For example, O’Connor emphasize the attitude of her grandkids, “‘She wouldn't stay at home to be queen for a day’ June Star said” (404). Her grandkids do not respect her because it seems that they learn the negative things from her. Also she is elegant because she mentions that if she gets in a car accident she wants to be notice that she is a lady. She would characterize herself as a good Christian. She tells her family that she does the things the right way and that they are doing the things the wrong way. The grandmother is a selfish, rude, racist, and she thinks that everything should be done her way. At the beginning of the story she tries to …show more content…
When the grandmother saw the guy face, she recognize that he was the misfit from the news. Now the guy did not have other choice than kill them. The grandmother realized that he is going to kill all of them, so she start to be nice to the criminal so he would not kill her. She tells that he is a nice guy even though she did not know him. Her personal attitudes changed and she start behaving like a good person. Throughout the conversation that she is having with the murderer, she does not care about her family and she only is trying to save herself. This is shocking because the message that she is giving means that he can kill his whole family except her because she is important. She tells the murderer that he looks like a nice guy just because of how he looks. She is a crazy, she is saying dumb things when she is next to a murderer. Absolutely the grandmother does not have a heart because when her son and grandkid were sent to the woods to be kill she is all calm having a pleasant conversation with the