This week’s read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” could be seen on the exterior as a chilling story about the murders of a family who just wanted to go on vacation. When we dive deeper, think about the story and maybe even reread it, you may notice that the interior is all about the coincidental theme of the story. From all the characters and including the title. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” so a bad man- The Misfit must be easy to find. The grandmother thinks there is no good left in the world, what a coincidence she is stuck with a grumpy and disrespectful family. What a coincidence that the grandmother dressed nicely so that if there was an accident and her body was left in the road, people would know she was a lady. And what a coincidence that the dirt road she tells Bailey to turn down leads them to The Misfit. The grandmother really thought she would be able to reason with a stone cold killer, maybe find something in common with him to get some sympathy but in the end she just gets left in the dirt, dead in her nice clothing.
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Hey Jasmine, I enjoyed your response a lot. I liked how you kind of found the flip side of the title. You put it in a very simple and clear way in a way that I thought was doing a really good job and easy to understand. I think that both of our responses touched on how it was the grandmother that literally sent them down this road that lead them to this murderer. Do you think that this was something that was inavoidable? Like in many Greek stories, this might have been their fate. That no matter what they had done, they could’ve have avoided this?
Hi Jasmin! I agree, this story is full of coincidences and very ironic. I also think that the characters in the story lack awareness. the grandmother thinks of herself as a good person but she is actually racist and self-centered. Also Red Sam thinks of himself as a good one, saying “A good man is hard to find” while treating his wife disrespectfully. it is funny since they are both not very nice but consider themselves as good people in a world where, as the grandmother said, “People are certainly not nice like they used to be”. maybe that is why a good man is hard to find; if people who are not good are sure that they are good they won’t do any changes to be better since they don’t see any problem in their character that needs to be changed… So maybe this story also shows us that we all need to take a look inside and think if our behavior and thoughts are really truly good without “anyone shooting us every minute of our life”.