A Good Man Is Hard To Find
pallis03
ENGL151
Jeb Wyman
10 am
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
I honestly was very bored with this story in the beginning and found the grandmother character to be uninteresting and annoying. The grandmother was constantly bossing her family around and manipulating them to do what she wanted them to do. She also was extremely critical of others and had a very inflated sense of self worth. I thought it was interesting that the grandmother never used her son’s (Bailey) wife’s name and just called her the children’s mother. She describes the mother’s to a cabbage.
The grandmother convinces everyone to go on a roadtrip and announces that there is an escaped convict by the name of Misfit on the loose. She claims that her conscious wouldn’t allow her to take their family in the direction of the Misfit. And of course they end up coming across the Misfit after the grandmother’s cat freaks out on Bailey and they get in a car crash. I wish that them coming across the Misfit wasn’t so predictable but I guess I don’t have any better suggestions on how the author could have redone that.
After they crashed three men stopped to see the situation and they ended up being the Misfit and two accomplices. Pretty much right off the bat the grandmother blatantly states that she knows hes the Misfit, solidifying the family’s death sentence immediately. Bailey swears at her and the Misfit’s accomplices takes him and his son off into the woods to shoot them. After talking with the grandmother a bit he also orders the his henchmen to shoot the mother and the rest of the children.
The Misfit is an interesting character and I ended up liking him a lot more than the grandmother because he at least knew that he was a bad person in contrast with the grandmothers attitudes of moral superiority the whole story. The Misfit was a very troubled character who seemed like he had truly seen the hard side of life. He was a sort of prophet of sorts that had gone wrong and compared himself with Jesus. It was sort of funny how the grandmother kept on trying to manipulate the Misfit by complementing him and trying to make him feel guilty about killing an old lady. Really showed who she was as a person and I honestly didn’t feel bad at all when she died which I thought was very well crafted by the author.