Flannery Oconnr

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In Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother faces her death at the end of the story. Her death may come as a surprise to the reader, but a closer look at hints throughout the story shows that the death of the grandmother is evident and unavoidable.
The Grandmother in A Good Man is Hard to Find does not want to take the trip to florida with the rest of the family. She is worried about the misfit that is on the loose and heading to flordia himself. Everyone ignores the Grandmothers notions excep for June Star. The fact that she admonishes Bailey, her son, of the misfit and “what he did to those people”(cite), foreshadows what is going to happen to them. O’Connor would not mention such an interesting fact without having it affect the characters later in the story.
The morning of the trip the grandmother is the first one in the car as June star predicted, “she woulnt stay home for a million buck. She ahs to go everywhere”(cite). This si a direct foreshadow of the grandothers death. When Bobby Lee and Hiram take someone into the forest, they never make it back. Eventully the whole family is taken to d3ie. The comment that June Star gives about Grandmother going with them is an indication that she is going to meet her death.
Although the grandmother did not want to go she was dressed in her Sunday best. “…a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet” (1143). When a person dies, they are usually drewssed in their best outfit as they are displayed in their coffin at a funeral. O’cConnor states the reason for grandmothes immaculate dress was, “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady” (11...