A_Good_Man_is_Hard_to_Find

A Good Man is Hard to Find The selfishness of a persons actions The grandmother in "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. dosenn’t value what she has in her life, but instead wants what has been left behind. She is a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesn't let anyone else's feelings stand in her way. The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past. She trys to justify her demands by convincing herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way. The grandmother is determined to change her family's vacation destination as she tries to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. She began trying to make Bailey, her son, feel guilty about the children's safety for there was a murder on the loose. The grandmother says that "she couldn't answer to her conscience if she took the children in a direction where there was a convict on the loose." She is not success-ful with Bailey, so she uses the same antics on her daughter-in-law who doesn't even good, man, grandmother, own, life, children, states, even, old, misfit, lady, going, family, bailey, very, though, son, out, house, go, doesn't, after, you're, way, vacation, trying, tries, time, throughout, tennessee, tell, suit, speaks, should, same, safety, remains, really, plantation, past, one, o'connor, manipulate, know, instead, instant, home, good, florida, everything, determined, deceitful