An Undersigned Termination
            
             In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Conner, through her magnificent use of foreshadowing, vivid imagery, and irony does the grandmother in figuratively, before the plot finishes her off literally. The Grandmother's manipulative and selfish personality combined with her ignorance and tactlessness apparently warrants her murder according to O'Conner in this third person omniscient narrative.
            
             In the beginning of this narrative, no one would conceive that the Misfit would be the reason of Grandmother and her entire family's piteous death. Grandmother's excessive aversion for the Misfit, an escaped murderer, doesn't influence any reader. They don't realize how much the importance of the character 'Misfit' has in this story. Contrariwise, her contempt for the Misfit: "I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it (378)" compels the readers to perceive the dramatic irony at the end of the story when they see the heart-rending termination of Grandmother's life by the Misfit.
            
             Grandmother's great care and love for her darling cat 'Pitty Sing' is an unfavorable premonition for her momentary presence on this planet. Readers get a taste of the cosmic and dramatic irony by the abnormal deed of 'Pitty Sing' at the outset of the last quarter of this yarn. For the security of Grandma's cat, Pitty Sing's life, she secretly brought it along on the trip without her son Bailey's knowledge. This Pitty Sing caused the accident on the way to the old house that Grandmother visited when she was a young lady. This phenomenon implies cosmic irony. The accident was a cruel joke on Grandma and her grandchildren June Star and John Wesley's hope because they eagerly wanted to visit the old house. It also depicts the dramatic irony. When the narrator narrates about Pitty Si...