A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor begins in a household with a discussion of planning a tour to Florida. The main one is the grandmother. She lives in the house with her son Bailey and his wife, along with their two children. Then most hated character of the story, the Misfit gang, is introduced later. The grandmother reads on the paper about the escape of the Misfit gang from the federal jail and how dangerous they are. Therefore, the Grandmother insists on going to Tennessee instead of Florida. The tour is decided to be towards Florida. The next day, on the way in the car, Grandmother thinks about an old plantation, and other things. Then there’s a detour taken after the Grandmother ignites the desire of the children by telling them a false story about a hidden gate will eventually meet the car with an accident. At this moment Misfit arrives at the place in a car and Grandmother recognizes them. This recognition then lead to the death of the whole family.
From the very beginning of the short story, the theme of death in A Good Man Is Hard to Find was dominating the minds and activities of the characters. Grandmother insisted on her son changing the tour to Tennessee from Florida, as the gang of Misfit was likely to be present in that area. The theme of death compels grandmother to carry her cat in the tour hiding in the car.
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