In this short story written by Flannery O’Connor, a family sets off for Florida only to be murdered by an escaped convict. Throughout their journey they encounter many people and places that let you in on the family’s morals and attitudes. The family has six people traveling with them, this including; the grandmother, a couple, and their three children. Bailey is the father and accompanying him is his wife. They have three children, two older children and a baby. John Wesley and June Star, being the older children have no respect for adults or really anything. The grandmother is a talkative elderly woman who also believes she is better than others and only thinks of herself. This story has many themes but one stands out to me, the breakdown
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The grandma saying anything she can to save herself, still in the end doesn’t save her. “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” and “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people” (pg.413). Lady being described earlier in this analysis just comes back to her thinking her life is more valuable than everyone else’s, as well as saying his blood isn’t common so he must be from nice people. The grandmas reasoning of “nice people” and “lady’s” is simply made up from no one but herself. Her descriptions of the misfit of being a “good man” and coming from “nice people” change depending on who she is talking to and whatever situation she is in. Just as earlier in the story she talked about a gentleman being a “good man” only because he had bought Coca-Cola stock and has lots of money. Unfortunately for her, the misfit saw right through her and her lies and misconceptions. The grandma try’s one last time to sway him saying, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!”. She then reached out and touches him on the shoulder and the misfit jumps back and shoots her in the chest. He then explains to his followers that “she would have been a good woman, if it had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life”. Even though the misfit plays a escaped criminal in the story, he understands who the grandmas is and can see right through her. He realizes she is nothing but a fake and he believes he actually did her good by shooting
The grandma saying anything she can to save herself, still in the end doesn’t save her. “You wouldn’t shoot a lady, would you?” and “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people” (pg.413). Lady being described earlier in this analysis just comes back to her thinking her life is more valuable than everyone else’s, as well as saying his blood isn’t common so he must be from nice people. The grandmas reasoning of “nice people” and “lady’s” is simply made up from no one but herself. Her descriptions of the misfit of being a “good man” and coming from “nice people” change depending on who she is talking to and whatever situation she is in. Just as earlier in the story she talked about a gentleman being a “good man” only because he had bought Coca-Cola stock and has lots of money. Unfortunately for her, the misfit saw right through her and her lies and misconceptions. The grandma try’s one last time to sway him saying, “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!”. She then reached out and touches him on the shoulder and the misfit jumps back and shoots her in the chest. He then explains to his followers that “she would have been a good woman, if it had been somebody to shoot her every minute of her life”. Even though the misfit plays a escaped criminal in the story, he understands who the grandmas is and can see right through her. He realizes she is nothing but a fake and he believes he actually did her good by shooting