Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find

bout other people and doesn't demonstrate the behavior of a lady. She considers herself a "lady" a characteristic that is very important to her even after she is dead-"her collars and cuffs were white trimmed with lace and at her necklace she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was a lay"(406). The Grandmother talks badly about others during the course of most of the story, she compares the children's mother's face to a cabbage, and chastises John Wesley, her grandson, for saying "Georgia is a lousy state too"(406) because it is his home state and he should respect it. The Grandmother through most of the story never acknowled
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