The interior of O’Conner’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is truly terrifying. Like in most stories foreshadowing can be seen when the grandmother warns her son about going to Florida because of the Misfit, though in suspenseful horror fashion he ignores her and they go there anyway. What can be taken away from this story is a lesson of what can happen when a person is bullheaded and thinks that they are correct. Examples are the grandmother being embarrassed that she was wrong and her son for not listening in the first place regardless of the chances of actually passing the Misfit by. I feel akin to Stephan Gresham’s point made in his essay about the tale that this story is much more frightening in the imagination of the reader regarding what is not shown than what actually is. This is a story that shows anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
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