O’Connor uses unflattering language to create a better understanding of the characters.The direct characterization within the story is very rude and unflattering while the indirect characterization foreshadows how the characters are. The language shows the personality of the grandmother, June Star, and Bailey.
Grandma is a very manipulative and self absorbed woman. Grandmother is manipulative from the start. She continuously tried to get Bailey to go to Tennessee instead of florida so she could see her connections. “She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind”O’Connor 364. She was not thinking of the well being of the family she just wanted to do everything her way. “ Bailey didn't look up from his reading so she wheeled around then and faced the children's mother, a young woman in slacks, whose face was as broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied around with a green head-kerchief that had two points on the top like rabbit's ears. “ O’Connor 364. O’Connor uses the unflattering language to show the grandmothers personality.
Furthermore, the grandmother focuses mainly on herself. O’Connor uses her thoughts to portray her character through her grotesque thought process. “ In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway
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She is constantly getting on her grandmothers nerves and says many inappropriate words. “"Afraid she'd miss something. She has to go everywhere we go" O’Connor 364. She indirectly characterizes the grandmother as nosy and unable to stay home. She always directly assaults the other people with insults or sarcasm. "No I certainly wouldn't," June Star said. "I wouldn't live in a broken-down place like this for a million bucks!" She said this in response to a sweet woman who was merely trying to compliment her. She is very rude, and the unflattering language she uses indirectly characterizes her as