In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor
I believe the story’s interior is about the fact that no one is good in this story where everyone is supposed to be good. Which leads me to discuss information about the grandmother and the misfit. The fact that the grandmother is ignorant, hypocritical, selfish and, manipulative. She is the reason they ended up dead in the woods. The Grandmother refuses to enjoy the family trip she had to manipulate her son and grand children to go on the family trip to another state. She asked them to make a detour which led them right to the misfit. Now I’m not sure if they would have gotten help and gotten out safely if she would have kept quiet but because she thinks she can get herself out of everything, she just kept going, and got everyone murdered because of her ignorance.
Now for the misfit he is clearly stuck in his ways and is on a killing spree. He let the grandmother go on and on as if he really cared about what she had to say he knew before he got out of the car that he was going to kill the family. The interior is definitely about a woman who thinks she can manipulate people and she tried to manipulate a murderer ,and not understanding the misfit is to far gone and there’s no saving him.
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Lalique, you are so right that no one in this story is good. However, the family also isn’t exactly bad. They fall in that grey area of people who just amble through life unaware of themselves and their impact on others. This is in contrast to the evil Misfit, who lives his life with intention and dedication.
Hello Lalique I agree that the grandma thinks that she can manipulate everyone to do what she wants. We see it all throughout the story and she even tries to manipulate people after she dies by dressing nicely so if people find her they will know she was a lady. I also think that whether or not she stayed quiet she and the family would’ve died regardless. The only thing she did by talking was prolong the last few minutes she had of her life.