In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, on the surface, O’Connor writes about a small family meeting a serial killer on the loose while on a trip to another state. The interior of this story is that the grandma is very racist and extremely narrow-minded, she thinks that she’s the main character of everyone’s life. She believes she is a good manipulator and even hid the cat her son doesn’t like in a suitcase. The grandma is very ignorant and selfish, and I would say she is the reason she and her family died to the killer.
On her trip, she ironically finds herself with the killer and attempted to manipulate the killer into not killing her. She attempted to do the same thing she does with her family by trying to soft-talk the killer and feed him lies. She was saying how a good person he is and mocking him, saying he wouldn’t shoot a lady. All these arrogant acts led to a tragic ending for her and her family’s lives.
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Hello Mike! I enjoyed reading your discussion. This has got to be one of my favorite passages, I feel that it talks a lot about life, more specifically who to trust and that there is bad in the good. This passage really surprised me because it gave me a twist to life as grandparents are people who are supposed to be loving people and bring the family together. However, not everyone is able to experience that and we do get to see that in the interior. She is manipulative and very selfish. Unfortunately, she is the person in your life who if something doesn’t go her way, there is no way at all, and that is she is miserable everyone sees is miserable as well.
Hi Mike I agree with your opinion on the grandmother being a racist and thinks she a master manipulator. I was upset and understood why her son didn’t want to bring the cat along. the grandmother is the reason why the whole family was killed. I’m actually surprised the killer saved her for last especially since she was talking his ears off but I do think its sad that she ended up getting the whole family killed due to her ignorance.