Debera Cwalina Comp II Week1 Assignment4 Final Draft 01-18-09 “A Good Man is Hard to Find” By: Flannery O’Connor The story starts off with a nuclear family wanting to go on vacation. The Grandmother does not want to go to Florida, where the family has decided to go; she wants to go to East Tennessee to visit some old connections. She tries to convince her son, Bailey, that they shouldn’t go to Florida by telling him how she read about a man calling himself “the Misfit”, who escaped from the Federal Pen and is heading to Florida and, by telling him what he has done to people, this does not work, she thought that by telling him about this article she would be able to manipulate him into going where she wants to go. The children, John Wesley and June Star, are the only ones who are paying attention to her and they rudely tell her if she doesn’t want to go she should just stay home, but know that she will not because as June Star states, “she has to go everywhere we go.” This is true, first thing in the morning the Grandmother was the first one in the car. O’Connor shows her southern roots as the story continues in how she describes the scenery and the characters. In the description of the Grandmothers traveling clothes; white gloves, navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim, a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print, collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet, it is easy to see that the Grandmother wanted to let people know that she is a lady. It is even noted that the Grandmother dressed this way “in case of a car accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was a lady.” The descriptions of the scenery that the Grandmother was giving on the car ride; brilliant red clay banks slightly streaked with purple, made the scenery easy to envision. As the story progresses, you can really notice the...