A Good Man is Hard to Find
The selfishness of a persons actions
The grandmother in “A good man is hard to find,” by Flannery OConnor. dosenn?t value
what she has in her life, but instead wants what has been left behind. She is a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesnt let anyone elses feelings stand in her way.
The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving
woman who lives in the past. She trys to justify her demands by convincing
herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way.
The grandmother is determined to change her familys vacation destination as she tries
to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. She began trying to
make Bailey, her son, feel guilty about the childrens safety for there was a murder on the
loose. The grandmother says that “she couldnt answer to her conscience if she took the
children in a direction where there was a convict on the loose.” She is not success-ful with
Bailey, so she uses the same antics on her daughter-in-law who doesnt even
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