Foreshadowing In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

A Good Man is Hard to Find was an interesting story. It started off with a solid hook that piqued my interest and prompted me to continue reading. After the hook, the author kept my attention by her immediate use of foreshadowing while at the same time introducing us to the personality of the grandmother. She tells her son that “The Mist is aloose…and headed toward Florida. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal…”(337). I thought that this was effective way showing the character’s neurotic and nosy personality and also give me a hint as to how to the main conflict will look. I think the author also did a good job of describing the characters, especially the grandmother. “Broad and innocent as a cabbage” is now my favorite …show more content…
I think that she was trying to invoke feelings of long and exhausting car trips in a cramped car with your family. Anybody who has been stuck listening to a slightly racist grandmother’s endless stories would connect with this. I wonder what year this was set in because that old lady has no filter and her family seems to be shockingly un-phased by her comments. Anyways, after a few mundane and uneventful pages (other than a brief stop at a gas station with another use of foreshadowing), things escalate real quickly and the grandmother’s cat causes an accident out of nowhere. It was actually kind of shocking too to read that “the mother, clutching the baby, was thrown out the door” (343). The climax of the story was uncharacteristically dark. The Misfit very politely has his goons shoot the entire family while the grandmother begs for him to see that he is a good man and to spare her life. For a second it almost seems like he is going to give in too until he gets spooked and kills her. The interesting thing about this ending is that, to me, it seems like The Misfit is supposed to be the protagonist. He is the only person in this story that is faced with