In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” is filled with flash forwards along with flashbacks setting the pace of the story’s tension-filled movement.
In the book A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother provided an instance of a flash forward sequence. In the story, the grandmother said, “what would you do if the misfit caught you” (Lawn, 295). The statement contained flash forward tendencies, due to the grandmother’s concern of a potential encounter with “Misfit” an ex-convict that can potentially harm them. An illustration of a flashback determined by the grandmother’s critique of her grandchildren. The grandmother recalled that “in my time…children are more respectful of their native states and their parents than anything else” …show more content…
The young lady said “she was not merely resting her eyes on the car next to hers…she was looking at me” (Lawn, 514). The young lady, the main character started the story with rising action; stating her paranoia when other women that are strangers looking at her are judging her. The young lady realizes that she is not in control of her tryst with the married man she helps him commits infidelity. During an argument, the man said “I have had only two affairs sin since I got married. I am not like other men” (Lawn, 521). The young lady soon comprehends that she is just a part of the man’s regular infidelity; she realized that she has been living in a fantasy powered by lies which contributes to the falling action of the story. At the end of the story, the story finally hits a reality. The young woman finally realized that “rituals of distrust…That is how to one another here, through rituals of distrust” (Lawn, 525). The story’s crisis point was the young woman’s decision of sleeping with a married man, thus realizing her mistakes from a real-life fantasy filled with distrust. The story started with a young lady being paranoid during a traffic jam, but soon
In the book A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother provided an instance of a flash forward sequence. In the story, the grandmother said, “what would you do if the misfit caught you” (Lawn, 295). The statement contained flash forward tendencies, due to the grandmother’s concern of a potential encounter with “Misfit” an ex-convict that can potentially harm them. An illustration of a flashback determined by the grandmother’s critique of her grandchildren. The grandmother recalled that “in my time…children are more respectful of their native states and their parents than anything else” …show more content…
The young lady said “she was not merely resting her eyes on the car next to hers…she was looking at me” (Lawn, 514). The young lady, the main character started the story with rising action; stating her paranoia when other women that are strangers looking at her are judging her. The young lady realizes that she is not in control of her tryst with the married man she helps him commits infidelity. During an argument, the man said “I have had only two affairs sin since I got married. I am not like other men” (Lawn, 521). The young lady soon comprehends that she is just a part of the man’s regular infidelity; she realized that she has been living in a fantasy powered by lies which contributes to the falling action of the story. At the end of the story, the story finally hits a reality. The young woman finally realized that “rituals of distrust…That is how to one another here, through rituals of distrust” (Lawn, 525). The story’s crisis point was the young woman’s decision of sleeping with a married man, thus realizing her mistakes from a real-life fantasy filled with distrust. The story started with a young lady being paranoid during a traffic jam, but soon