Explication Of A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Explication of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a very interesting short story. The story starts with a grandmother trying to talk his son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida for a family trip. She tells the son about The Misfit who escaped prison who is going toward Florida. The family disagrees with the grandmother and they end up going to Florida. On their way the grandmother tells the kids about a house with a secret panel in Georgia they will be passing. They beg the dad to go to the house, so the dad goes down the dirt road heading toward the house. The cat jumps out scaring the dad causing them to get in an accident. The Misfit and two other men that escaped prison him run into the family. They kill the family one by one. As the grandmother is the last living member of the family she begs The Misfit not to kill her, he shoots her three times in the chest. The three men drive away.
Each character has a different impact in this short story. Bailey is the grandmother’s only son. He lives with his wife, his three kids, and his mother. Bailey gets annoyed by what his mother says sometimes. We see this at the beginning when he seems to ignore her about The Misfit going toward Florida. We also see this when the story says, “Bailey turned his head sharply and said something to his mother that …show more content…
He has a conversation with the grandmother and says “A good man is hard to find.” He believes it is hard to find trustworthy people anymore, the grandmother agrees with him. The grandmother calls Red Sammy a good man. He seems to enjoy the conversation with the grandmother. I believe he is supposed to represent what a good man is. Red Sammy’s wife is the waitress at the restaurant. She has a small conversation with the family and jokes with Red Sammy about The Misfit coming to steal the two cents they have in the cash