Authors often describe certain characters in stories in detail. The author usually sets these characters aside and examines them. The Grandmother in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is a proper southern woman. She possesses several constant characteristics throughout the story. In her short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," Flannery O'Connor's character of the Grandmother does not change during the trip to Florida, the accident in the car, or the encounter with the Misfit.
             As the trip to Florida begins, O'Connor shows the Grandmother's changeless personality. O'Connor establishes the vanity and manipulations of the Grandmother. James A. Grimshaw asserts that the Grandmother is vain and devious (39). O'Connor describes the white cotton gloves the grandmother wears and how she properly places them on the shelf in the back window of the car. Goodman claims that the Grandmother "with her smug pretensions about 'breeding,' her racial prejudice, and unceasing chatter is singled out as a particularly hollow, if harmless, personality" (295). The trip also reveals the Grandmother's manipulations. The Grandmother cleverly manipulates the family to stop at the old plantation with which she was once familiar
             The Grandmother does not change when she causes the car accident. Her dramatic personality and devious manner are illuminated. When the Grandmother limps out of the car, she claims that she has "injured an organ" (190). The Grandmother's waving of her arms for help to draw attention of the passing car reveals her consistent dramatic personality. O'Connor shows the Grandmother's devious nature when she fails to tell the family the truth about her mistake concerning the location of the plantation.
             O'Connor also displays the unchanging of the Grandmother when the family encounters the
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