"A Good Man Is Hard To Find"

That's very true. This story is told in a third person perspective of the grandmother. In the beginning, I thought this would be a story that is similar to family, road trip movies I see on television. I was wrong. This is not a typical family road trip. The grandmother is irritating from the beginning to end; she is selfish and overbearing. She complains about going to Florida yet she packs and gets in the car with her son, his wife, and her grandchildren. She forces her family to stop by an old plantation and reminisces. She later realizes that the plantation is in Tennessee, not Georgia. They get into a car crash and are met by strangers. The Misfit, is a murder at large around that area, and he happened to be the one who saw the family along the road. He kills all of them, one by one. The grandmother, for once, has nothing to say, until he tries to kill her. She continuously begs for her life and when that does not work, she preaches to him.

Red Sammy says, "a good man is hard to find", while speaking to the grandmother during a gas and dinner break. Flannery O' Connor may have used that common phrase to state that everyone has imperfections. This might mean that no matter how much "good" is in the world, there will always be people like the Misfit around.

The story was not bad, overall. The grandmother did not seem like a typical grandmother; someone who sweet, kind, and selfless. I guess O' Connor made the story very humorous in the beginning to balance out the gruesome ending.