People's morals are influenced by society's expectations of a good man which is appearance and reputation. For the trip the grandma dresses up like a “good” lady. “ she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady.”(Flannery,2) The grandma is more worried something skin deep like her appearance when she dies because she wants to always be remembered as a good person by appearance and not by what's inside. Dressing like a lady is one of society's expectations and the grandma is more worried about her appearance rather than what's inside. This shows how finding a good man is hard because they aren't really internally good but they have the appearance and reputation to be seen as good.
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The grandma talks about a very good looking man and gentle man which she said “ she would have done well to marry Mr Teagarden because he was a gentleman and had bought Coca Cola stock when it first came out and he ha died only a few years ago, a very wealthy man.”(Flannery,2). She doesn't talk about how he truly is even though they dated but talks about the appearance because that's all that mattered to her. Society has blinded people into identify a good man by skin deep characteristics instead of identifying a good man by what's inside and that is how a good man is hard to find. When the grandma goes through her epiphany she feels the grace and goodness and wants to do good. “She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!"( Flannery,
The grandma talks about a very good looking man and gentle man which she said “ she would have done well to marry Mr Teagarden because he was a gentleman and had bought Coca Cola stock when it first came out and he ha died only a few years ago, a very wealthy man.”(Flannery,2). She doesn't talk about how he truly is even though they dated but talks about the appearance because that's all that mattered to her. Society has blinded people into identify a good man by skin deep characteristics instead of identifying a good man by what's inside and that is how a good man is hard to find. When the grandma goes through her epiphany she feels the grace and goodness and wants to do good. “She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!"( Flannery,