A Good Man Is Hard To Find Character Analysis Essay

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In Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, is about a family’s trip to Florida from Georgia and what happens along their journey. Before the trip starts the grandmother tries to convince her son to take his family to Tennessee instead of Florida because they have already traveled there and that there was a misfit that escaped from federal holding and was making his way down to Florida a well. Throughout the story you learn some traits about the family and other characters in the story.
The family is like any family with young children, Bailey is the grandmother's only son, and the father of June Star and John Wesley. He is also the driver for the family trip. In his mind, he's in charge, and he won't let you forget it. We learn that he's high-strung and not in control of
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The grandmother seems to be selfish, and tries to satisfy her selfishness by manipulating people. Towards the end the story you meet the Misfit; he is A wanted criminal who stumbles upon the family when they crash their car in the woods. Before she is killed, she tries to reason with the Misfit but only enrages him. She experiences a moment of grace right by telling he misfit to pray and they talk about Jesus before the Misfit shoots her at the end of the story. The Misfit lives by a moral code that involves murder and remorselessness, but he also spends time wondering about Jesus, this shows that he has somewhat of a conscious because he thinks about the things that he has done. The Misfit doesn't get it. He just doesn't understand why he's been punished the way he has for what he did. In his own words, "I call myself The Misfit because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment" . He doesn’t see himself as a terrible person. His two henchmen kill the entire family, and the Misfit shoots the grandmother