Examples Of Miscommunication In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

The Grandma tried to keep her family safe by trying to take a different direction other than Florida because of The Misfit, who is criminal who escaped from the Federal Pen. She convinces them to go to East Tennessee instead to visit some of her connections since she grew up there. ---“Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people.”(Par. 2) She wouldn’t feel comfortable by taking her children in that direction since a criminal was on the loose in the area. Also the Grandma mentions to her son that he should take the kids somewhere they haven’t been before since they had already been to Florida. ---"You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad.”(Par. 4) I figure that the Grandma was just trying to do a mother’s job to do anything

The story continues to have comical parts as the family continues traveling to Florida until the grandmother remembers of a time when she was young and decides she wants to visit an old home. She tells the children about a house and even lies to them and says that there are "secret panels" (324). They become very excited and Bailey decides to let them go see it and on the way there is when the tone and story line changes.

For example, Bailey does not want her to carry the cat to their journey. However, grandmother does not listen to him and she hides the cat inside the car in a basket and thus secretly brings the cat along with her. On their way, she also wants to go and visit the old plantation even though Bailey does not agree to this. In order to see that she gets what she wants, she talks to the children and convinces them to tell Bailey to do as she wishes. The author writes “There was a secret panel in this house…. and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found . . .” (O’Connor 45). Grandmother says these words craftily in her attempts to convince Bailey to drive to the old plantations even though she knows that she is not telling the truth. Evidently, she leads the family into a dangerous tour drive. In this tour, the family ends up having an accident due to the Pitty Sing cat sneaking out of the car, leaping on Bailey who loses control of the car. She avoids responsibility by pretending to be hurt. Her actions put the family in dangerous situations.

The grandmother hid her cat in a basket, which she puts in the car with her on the day of the trip. The grandmother wears a floral hat and dress, because if she were to get into a car accident people would know she is “a lady”. The two kids June Star and John Wesley clearly dislike their grandmother, it is very clear because they often make remarks to suggest this. The family makes their way through Georgia and they Grandma reminisces about an old suitor she had back in the day when the family passes

In the beginning, the grandmother is reading the newspaper where she then learns about the Misfit who escaped prison. The grandmother says, “I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscious if it did” (O’Connor 485). This quote foreshadows as the accident happened with her guidance on the road it is what led them to steer off the main road. They were on and into the arms of who they call the Misfit and his

Bailey and his wife are up in the front seats of the car, and since the grandmother is in the back with the two kids, where her sphere of socialization and influence are more prominent, the kids are learning her bad habits after all through imitation and desensitization. All the settings are revolving around the grandmother, the protagonist, and they are placing her on a road to hell, paved in her own narcissism and condescending behavior.

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is a very compelling short story written by Flannery O’Connor. In this short story Flannery O’Connor tells a story of a man (Bailey) who plans on taking his family on a summer vacation in Florida, but the grandmother disagrees and insist that they go to Tennessee instead. She then tries to persuade Bailey to take the family to Tennessee by telling him that his two children had never been to Tennessee before and by showing him a news article, which showed that an escaped murderer called the Misfit was last seen headed to Florida. Bailey pays his mother no mind and takes his family to Florida anyway. Along the way the grandmother mistakenly kicks

With mild aggravation, Bailey drives down a winding and twisting road remotely traveled with scenic attributes. As the trip continues, Bailey considers and communicates to his mother that he will turn around if the house does not appear soon. Sudden memory confirms that the house was in Tennessee and the subsequent movement-based on slight embarrassment startles the cat that she had concealed before the trip began. While grandma simply tries to hold on to something that peaks her interest in this trip, eagerness and revelation further stresses her son and startles the stowaway cat that should not have made the trip anyway. The cat proves to be the mechanism that turns an already hassle filled trip into a fate filled voyage.

Flannery O’Connor wrote “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” in 1953, and the story follows a man named Bailey and his family as they travel to Florida for a vacation. The story has a bit of a dark ending as it ends with the entire family being killed by a criminal on the run named, The Misfit. Reading through the story the first time O’Connor uses good description of several things throughout, but after further reading and examining it’s noticed that O’Connor is actually foreshadowing the families death in multiple areas.

First of all the grandma specifically states she would never bring her children near the Misfit that is on the loose. She basically says she wouldn’t be able to live with herself if the unthinkable did happen. One could expect them not to run into him, and if they did the grandma would be able to get them out of the unfortunate situation, “The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest” (O’Connor 13). This is especially ironic because the family did come in contact with the Misfit and the ended up all getting killed. This way she didn’t have to deal with her conscience, because she was soon dead after meeting up with the dangerous Misfit.

Panic gripped the grandmother when she realized she knew who the Misfit was, and that she was going to die. Her persuasion tactics were not as cunning as Marion’s, but she tried her best to point out her importance as a lady and complimented him, “You don't look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!”(O’Connor). The grandmother begged for her own life to be saved, but didn’t mention the rest of her family members besides yelling, "Bailey Boy!"(O’Connor) pathetically after her son. Terror brought out the grandmother’s persuasiveness and the use of mystery and suspense heightened the characters’

“A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the short story written by Flannery O’Connor describes the events that unfold about a family who ventures out on a road trip to Florida. The grandmother who resides with Bailey, her son, and his family, disapprove of the destination, and attempts to persuade Bailey to head to east Tennessee instead. Upon learning of an escaped prisoner, the Misfit, the grandmother tries to convince Bailey and his wife to alter the plans, but they disregard her pleas. There were several events that occurred during the road trip that eventually resulted in an encounter that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat.

In the story, the grandma begins to tell a story about the old house she used to live in when she was younger. The grandmother was anxious to revisit the house, but she knew Bailey would not want to revisit the old house. The grandma manipulates and lies by saying “There was a secret panel in this house” (p. 443). She said this skilled in deception. She knew that this will stimulate the kids to want to visit.

The grandmother displayed behaviors of being self-centered. In the beginning of the story, the grandmother deliberately stated, “she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind” about the family vacation to Florida (O’Connor, 420). It was rude of her as a guest on the trip to try and make it all about herself. If she wanted to see her friends in Tennessee, she should have made her over personal trip to go there. Furthermore, she purposely lied about there being a secret panel to her grandchildren to stir them up, resulting in them going to the plantation. She even expressed, “the more she talked about it, the more she wanted to see it once again…,” and she even said, “she knew that Bailey would not be willing to spend any time looking at an old house…” (O’Connor, 424). First, it illustrates that the grandmother knew her son would not want to waste time on sight seeing an old home. Secondly, that motivated her to make a story up knowing that it would lead to her grandchildren, making the nervous father relinquish to the children request, which was truly the grandmother’s longing.

The family stops at a restaurant to get a bite to eat, and we find out that the two parents, Bailey and his wife, do not really care for the Grandmother. The Grandmother asks Bailey to dance, but he just declines and ignores her. Bailey’s wife does not seem to care either. They then continue on the road, and the Grandmother begins to tell the story of a house that she really enjoyed passing. She really wanted to go there, so she persuaded the children to want to go as well. After a long time of complaining, they finally convince their father to head back toward this house. They go down this road when all