A good man is hard to find
“She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.” (49) Oh, how horrible! What type of man could kill so ruthlessly? The poor woman did not stand a chance. In a world filled violence it is a shame to see a sweet old innocent grandmother get murdered. The grandmother in Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is anything, but sweet and innocent. It is hard to understand that the grandmother is the protagonist in this story. The heroin of the story has many negative character traits, which leaves you with little sympathy for her when the Misfit shoots her. The clothes she wears and the false charm that she portrays gives way to the manipulative, self-centered person that she really is. How can such a poor excuse of an old woman be the heroin of the story? The only things that make her a sweet old lady are the things that other people see from the outside. From the beginning of the family trip she tries to show the world how nice of a woman she is. She goes and puts “on a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neck line she had pinned a pur
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Approximate Word count = 837
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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