Examples Of Misunderstanding In A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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Misunderstandings As represented in the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor, a good man was hard to be and had different ideas of how to pursue it. Going through the journey with the grandmother and her family learning about the Misfit, the audience can witness the actions being made by different characters to witness their fall and/or their triumph. When looking into the grandmother more deeply, the audience can detect the intensity of her self absorption. She would consider herself a lady with high standards of herself. “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (O’Connor 297). Even in the most gruesome cases, she would want to be known as being the high status lady. “Character design …show more content…

Whenever the audience would hear the grandmother mentioned, a picture of a well behaved and elegant woman would come up. A lady in the years O'Connor wrote this story meant to have morals, to be respectful, and to be modest. The grandmother wanted nothing less than to have and look the best at all times. However, the situation changes when the grandmother and her family get into the wreck and her “navy blue straw sailor hat” (O’Connor 297) falls off. As they all are recovering from the wreck, three men arrive on the scene offering their help. Suddenly, the grandmother recognizes one of the men as the Misfit. The grandmother began telling the Misfit “I know you must come from nice people” (O’Connor 304). She expressed her ideas that the Misfit was good, as long as, she got out alive. Not knowing what was about to happen, the audience can peace out a hidden message in the text which revealed a change with the grandmother. “The Grandmother reached up to adjust her hat… but it came

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