The grandmother can be characterized as a misfit in the story because she originally wants to go to Tennessee but the rest of the family wants to go to Florida. This shows you that she is the only one that doesn’t conform to everyone else’s opinion. She tries to convince everyone about the serial killer going around named “The Misfit” and how they might encounter it, but they choose to ignore her, this also foreshadows the events to come. Even though she didn’t want to go to Florida she doesn’t want to stay home, and also trying to convince her son’s kids but they just end up making fun of her. She agrees to go to Florida with them but can’t leave her precious cat behind so she takes him because she is afraid that it might kill itself …show more content…
Her desire to go to an old plantation she had been at before she didn’t realize that it wasn’t on their way to Florida but in actual Tennessee. By the moment she had realized they were in the wrong place she had kicked the basket which was holding the cat, and thus it sprung onto her sons face and caused them to crash. The dad gave in because they grandmother had stirred up their curiosity by telling them there was something secret there. When they were getting ready to get on the road toward Florida, she was the only one to dress up because she wanted to stand out in case she was on the road dead, they would had known that she was a lady. The time she was born in showed her character because she would referred to black people as the “n” word. Also she knew about plantations which was common in the south and during slave time periods. In a sense she was out of place time wise due to her age and her culture. When they crash they encounter the “Misfit” and try to reason with him but his psychotic mentality prevents him from feeling any restraint or remorse in murdering all of them including the kids and they baby. She is the only one that tries to convince him that he is a good man and should spare