O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find

A Good Man Is Hard to Find started out as what I thought would be comical, but it quickly turned into suspense and murder! I found very ironic that the one thing the grandmother said she was trying to keep her family away from was the thing she led them right to.  She wanted badly to go to Tennessee while the rest of her family was ready to go to Florida. She tried to persuade them to go to Tennessee because a man had escaped prison and she said that was where he was heading. On their way to Florida the grandmother tells her grandchildren a story about a house, which makes them want to go see it. The father finally gives in and travels down a dirt road. They wind up having a wreck on the side of the road. Soon after they notice a car coming towards them, it was the man who escaped prison named the misfit.  The misfit and his friends wind up killing the whole family.

While reading this story you can defiantly tell it was set in the early 1900’s because the language the author uses. The grandmother is the main character. The title of this story does speak a lot about the story itself, though at first I thought this story was going to be something entirely different because of the title. At the, after they kill the grandmother, when the misfit tells his friend to shut up for saying “some fun” and then tells his friend “it’s no real pleasure in life”, I believe the author may have been giving us a glimpse that he wasn’t just crazy, but rather he could be good if he wanted. Also thought the time the grandmother was talking to the misfit she kept telling him that he looked like he was from good blood, something most thought to be true in that day.