“A Good Man is Hard to Find” In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Flannery O’Connor indicates the main character the grandmother and her southern family taking a vacation to Florida, even though the grandmother would rather go to Tennessee. The real journey takes place inside the family's lives. One question that comes up in the story is what the definition of a good man is and how there is so few of them left in the world. Many of the characters in the story think of themselves as good people based on moral choices. In this novel "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", O'Connor, will show you that the grandmother keeps mentioning how there are no good people out in the world like before, no matter how nice you are when it comes down to evil people, you can not run from death. A Grandmother, living with her son and his family, appears to be a manipulative and deceitful old woman. As her family decides to take a vacation drive to Florida, she tells her son Bailey that they should head down to Tennessee instead. Due to the fact that there is a criminal “The Misfit” and two other fugitives on the loose who have escaped prison and she wants to visit some of her old connections. She gets ready to head with them even though she's not invited. While on the road the children John Wesley, and …show more content…
He eventually realized that it doesn't matter what crime one commits; "sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.” (O’Connor 293) As a result, he thinks that one might as well do bad, if one is going to be punished whether one does bad or not "'No pleasure but meanness,'" he says. The Misfit sees the disconnect between the grandmother's values and his own. He's been mistreated and condemned, his life ruined, and he recognizes she’s trying to manipulate him by making it seem as though they have some values in