Examples Of Misfits In A Good Man's Hard To Find

In Flannery O’Conner’s, “A Good Man’s Hard to Find”, contains a quote at the end of the story that may make readers rethink their opinion on the misfit and the grandmother in the story. The Misfit states “She would have been a good woman, if someone was there to shoot her every day of her life”. So what does the Misfit really mean by this comment? Well you have to look at several different variables, one being what kind of person the misfit is, two what kind of person the grandmother is, and lastly what the Misfit’s true intent was for his comment towards the grandmother.
The story starts of in the setting of the family’s home in which they are discussing where they are going to go for their road trip. The grandmother wants to go to Tennessee …show more content…
The reason she snuck the cat into the car is so that Bailey would not find out as he did not want the cat to be coming on the trip. On the way the family stops at an eatery called The Tower owned by a man named Red Sammy. During the stop the grandmother and Red Sammy have a conversation. Red Sammy complains that these days you do not know who you can trust anymore, saying that he recently let two men by gas on credit, in fear that the men would not pay him back. The grandmothers then tells Red Sammy that his action makes him a good man. The grandmother then gets on the topic of the misfit and asking Red Sammy if he had heard about him, stating that she would be surprised if he did not attack the very restaurant they were in. Red Sammy the states, "A good man is hard to find, everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more." After which he and the grandmother discussed when times were …show more content…
One man with glasses and no shirt tells Baily’s wife to make June Star and John Wesley sit down because children make him nervous. The grandmother then shouts because she recognized the man as being the misfit being talked about in the news. The man then replies that it wasn’t very good that the grandmother recognized him. The grandmother then asks the misfit whether or not he would shoot a lady. The misfit replies that he wouldn’t like to. The grandmother then tells the misfit that he is a good man over and over again. The misfit tells the other two men that are with him, Bobby Lee and Hiram, to take Baily and John Wesley into the woods. The misfit tells the grandmother that he knows he’s not a good man but he’s not the worst either and then apologizes for not wearing a shirt as the men had to ditch their other clothes when they escaped from