From the beginning of the story, the grandmother acts selfishly. In some ways, she is also sarcastic. Two paragraphs into the story the family plans a trip to go to Florida. The grandmother never has any intentions of actually going to Florida; she has her mind set on going to Tennessee. Every chance she gets, she tries putting thoughts into her son, Bailey’s head, trying to change his mind. A way she comes up with to change Bailey’s mind is to mention the newspaper’s report about a murderer that escapes from the Federal Pen, is heading towards Florida, and goes by the name of “The Misfit.” Once she realizes that Bailey doesn’t care, she says, “The children have been to Florida before,” still considering how she would benefit from the trip
