Flannery O?Connor'sA Good Man Is Hard To Find,? is an account of how a homicidal maniac slaughters a family of ordinary, innocent people whom he happens to encounter on the road. O? Connor interprets the dialogue between the grandmother and the Misfit as a comment on general human and Christian values; represented in the themes of the dysfunctional family, society as a dysfunction and the role of Christianity interwoven in the dialogue. O?Connor's obvious displeasure with contemporary society is woven in the story, and presented through an interesting generation gap.
             The story begins with the typical nuclear family, challenged by the grandmother who does not want to take the family vacation to Florida, but rather East Tennessee. She reads about a crazed killer by the name of The Misfit, who is on the run, heading towards Florida as well. Unfortunately she is ignored by every member of the family except for the little girl, June Star, who can read the grandmother like an open book. The fact that she admonishes Bailey, her son, of this Misfit andwhat he did to those people,? foreshadows what will happen to them (Brooks 307). O?Connor doesn't mention this in the beginning of the story as a mute point, it's obvious that this interesting fact is going to have a significant impact on the characters later in the story. The morning of the trip the grandmother is the first one in the car, ready to travel as June Star predicted she would be,She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks'she has to go everywhere we go? (Brooks 307). This co!
             uld be read as a direct foreshadowing of the grandmother's death. As it becomes painfully obvious later in the story as the reason's why every time Bobby Lee and Hiram, take someone to the forest and why they do not return. Eventually, the whole family is taken to die, and June Star's comment about the grandmother going everywhere the family goes, could be interpreted as a direct indication th...