A good man is hard to find
The Character Analysis of The grandmother and The Misfit of Flannery O' Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"The two major characters in Flannery O' Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find are in acualality are a backward, opposite image of each other. The grandmother is showed to be a selfish self-involved woman who wants her way, a person with little memory, just a basic old woman living with her only son. The Misfit on the other hand is a man who feels he has done no wrong, but has just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in the end comes to close to the truth which scares him. From the beginning it introduces the grandmother and right off you see how she wishes they could take a trip to where she used to live, she tries every chance she gets to change the plans for the trip with her only son. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida," "I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it." As they drive and they talk everything she says toward someone else is always a put down, towards the people they see and the people in the car. Sh
While sitting on the side of the road a car with 3 men pulled over one the grandmother stupidly announces to everyone as The Misfit. e sees a little "Niger" boy and comments "Little Niger's in the country don't have things like we do". As they continue down and endless road the cat springs free from the hiding place in which the grandmother placed it, which causes Bailey to loose control and wreck. With only one reply to it all, "It's no real pleasure in life. He takes life as it comes, he doesn't like what he has to do to the family, but it was that or go back to the place he was never supposed to be, so doing what he doesn't really wish to he kills them. As they drove she talks Bailey, her son, to take a detour to see an old plantation she visited when she was younger, halfway there she realized the plantation was in Tennessee, and they were in Georgia. All of this comes to no avail if anything in antagonizes him which throws a switch in his mind and he reacts the only way he knows how, by shooting her in the chest and putting his problem to an end. He believes he never did anything to deserve to be put into jail, that he was once again done wrong. She sympathizes with him and tries to relate to him. In acting like someone she was not and being selfish toward her self she brought her own death upon her. With the grandma still trying to bargain and reach him see somehow reaches inside and hits a nerve, pulls a switch which surprises and amazes The Misfit, and he reacts on instinct by killing her and ending his problem. He is so kind to everyone even though he sends them one by one to their deaths. He was just a regular person who was wronged by a mistake, which sent him to a living hell. She went through life to benefit herself and pretty much everything she did was for her own selfish self. The Misfit says dealing with the grandmother, "She would have been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
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