In my essay, I plan on discussing the Grandmother’s need for redemption in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”. The Grandmother, at the beginning at the story, wishes to visit east Tennessee rather than go to Florida due to a convict named The Misfit was on the run. The Grandmother loses and the family starts on their journey to Florida. During the journey, the Grandmother inadvertently causes an accident which attracts the attention of three males who happened to have been driving by. The Grandmother recognizes one of the males as being The Misfit. Throughout the last few pages of the short story, the Misfit and the two other males kill the family one at a time by taking small sections of the family into the woods and shoot the ones that the two
