A Good Man Is Hard To Find

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A Florida trip is very nice to consider when traveling. However, Tennessee was on grandmother’s mind the whole time in Flannery O’ Connor’s “A Good Man is hard to find.” Maybe if everyone had stuck to her plan, the story would not have happened the way that it did.
In the beginning, the family planned on having a nice vacation for Florida. Grandmother insisted on going to Tennessee because of rumors of a misfit escaping and fleeing towards Florida. Bailey was set in his ways and nothing was going to stop them from going to Florida.
After this decision, grandmother was worried about everything. She even went to the extent of dressing like a woman so if anyone found her body on the side of the road dead, they would know that she was a lady and her identity. Clothing was very symbolic in this story because the author would describe in specific detail about the characters clothes. Also, at the end of the story when the man came back with Bailey’s shirt on gave a little more symbolic touch to the story.
When most people hear the phrase, “A good man is hard to find,” most people agree that it means exactly what it says. I think that most women will agree with me in that sense. However, before I read this story, I thought that it was going to turn out different than expected. Little did I know what the story was really going to be about and what that phrase really meant. On the way, the family stopped at a restaurant to grab a bite to eat. The grandmother and the owner of this restaurant had a conversation about the misfit who had escaped. The man mentioned, “These days you just don’t know who t o trust” (311). Grandmother mentioned her part on claiming that a good man is definitely hard to find. She had no clue that later on she would know that personally.
Another important symbol that I found in this story was the white house and plantation that grandmother had recalled from her past. “The house had six ...