The_Unfortunate_Redemption

The Unfortunate Redemption The Unfortunate Redemption At first I found O’Connor’s piece, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” grotesque and unappealing; however, after rereading, it was fascinating. The story is about a vacation, a grandmother, her son Bailey and his family go on that ends in misfortune. Bailey and his wife have a young baby and two unruly children: John Wesley and June Star. The grandmother is a cantankerous either knowingly or not leads them to their deaths. O’Connor meticulously intertwines foreshadowing throughout the story that hint to the eventful end, where the grandmother has an epiphany. The story begins with foreshadowing when the grandmother tries to persuade her son Bailey to visit Tennessee instead of Florida. O’Connor explains the grandma does not want to go to Florida because a felon called “The Misfit” has just escaped from jail and is heading towards Florida on a killing spree (302). The grandma’s story is about the man is ironic because he ends up being the family’s killer. Not winning the debate, the grandmother and family head off destined to Florida. She brings her cat, Pitty Sing, and hides him in a basket because she knows Bailey would grandmother, story, find, family, bailey, redemption, cat, about, plantation, one, misfit, florida, son, seem, o’connor, go, children, because, accident, throughout, says, own, old, man, herself, foreshadowing, first, end, clothes, car, along, 303, 302, wearing, two