A Good Man is Hard to Find” was in some way frightening and shocking to me, especially because it starts out peacefully and ends with a terrible ending: the death of the grandmother, Baily, his wife, and his three children. I thought that in the sequence of the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” resembles “The Lottery,” in which the story starts with a good day and ends with the scene where a woman who is chosen from the town lottery is stoned to death. They are also very similar in the way that both authors use foreshadowing to hint at the unexpected, terrible ending. From the part where the grandmother begs for mercy to The Misfit saying that she knows that he is an internally kind person and that believing in God will help him be more righteous,
