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Examples Of Foreshadowing In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, much of the story takes place inside the family car. Given that the family will end up dead, the car represents the journey of life. In the beginning no one listened to the grandmother, everyone in the family seemed to have more important things to do. The children treated her like she didn’t belong and spoke crudely to her almost through the entire story. Flannery O’Connor stated, “the children were reading comic magazines” (431). They were more interested in their comic books than listening to their grandmother stories. Two examples of foreshadowing are related to the horror of the story's ending are in the early passages of the narrative, the reader is informed that “the Misfit
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