to my conscience if I did." The grandmother says this to make Bailey wonder what would happen if they did run into the misfit. The grandmother later says, "The children have been to Florida before...you ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have been to East Tennessee." To the grandmother the article about The Misfit, and that the children have been to Florida serve as manipulation tactics in her relentless and ongoing battle to try and influence Bailey and his family into going to east Tennessee.
             The next act of manipulation is when the grandmother brings the cat, Pitty Sing along for the trip. She knows that "her son didn't like to arrive at a motel with a cat" but instead she brings him because she thinks, "he would miss her too much." Again, the grandmother is only thinking about herself. Even after her tireless efforts to get the family to go to Tennessee, her son Bailey is kind enough to let her accompany them to Florida. She brought the cat along with her in a basket for the tr
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