A_Good_Man_Is_Hard_To_Find

A Good Man Is Hard To Find The foreshadowing effect in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” To foreshadow is to give a hint or a suggestion of a forthcoming event. Flannery O’Connor uses the foreshadowing effect adequately in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” There were many hints and suggestions that something unpleasant was going to happen in this story. The moment the grandmother first speaks of the misfit, we can assume he will show up later in the story because he is headed in the same direction as the family. Close to the ending, when the gunshots are heard from the woods, we can assume that the situation cannot get much worse. The first hint of trouble comes early in the story before the first paragraph ends. The grandmother tries to show Bailey a newspaper article about The Misfit, who has escaped the penitentiary and is headed toward Florida. The grandmother tries to discourage Bailey from taking the family to Florida again by telling him he ought to take the children somewhere else for a change, but he disregards his mother and they go on the trip anyway. The probability that an escaped convict is headed in the same direction as Bailey and good, man, hard, find, story, grandmother, family, road, misfit, o’connor, bailey, woods, happen, about, something, going, foreshadowing, describes, accident, way, suggests, men, know, inside, hint, heard, headed, gunshots, first, effect, comes, believe, because, after, woman, trust, tries, three, therefore, table