Personal Commentary on A Good Man Is Hard To Find Essay

My Opinion on this short story

In my opinion this short story could have brought my mind several different ways. I see this story as a learning experience for people and a way to teach people that not all good things happen to good people. I feel, as this is a way to show people what life is truly about and how some people think that nothing bad could happen to them. It makes you question why people do what they do. Do people act upon what they see rather than what they know is the right thing to do?

In the short story the author has hit every way that the people that surround them often mistreat the elderly. Their opinions are either not noticed or they are just simply criticized. This story goes to show you that kids and younger adults simply seem to ignore, as you would say their elders an example of this involved the grandmothers strong, southern heritage. She thinks that anyone that could find her dead on the side of the road will know that she lived a long life and was a lady. She told stories about her meeting southern gentlemen wanting to be with her. The grandmother is a woman who believes in God, but seems that when she comes into counter with the misfits her faith seems to disappear just a little bit.

This story seems to want to teach a lot of different lessons. One of them being that people in todays world are misleading, young, and religiously misguided. The grandmother to me symbolizes the older generation which is somewhat seemed to have disappeared from todays world. As most people in the new generation dont seem to listen to what the older generation has to say even though they have been around much longer. The grandmother tried to tell the younger generation in this story about how she used to live when she was younger and explained to them stories about her encounters and lessons that she has learned in her lifetime.

The misfit is a prime example to show how not everyone is a good person. The grandmother tries to push her religion on him and tries to tell him how he should pray to become a better person. The misfit doesnt seem to take anything the grandmother says seriously. It seemed to me that he thought he was to good for her and thought that she was just an elderly lady who was just too full of herself and God. Personally I think the grandmother should have never tried to push her religion on the misfit, it could have saved her life by keeping her mouth shut.

The grandmother wasnt the only person that seemed to spark my interest it was also how the kids reacted to what the grandmother and their parents had to say. They didnt seem to acknowledge or care about the lessons their elders were trying to teach them. This is a prime example of why people do what they do. Why do kids act like nothing bad will happen to them or why they think they can get away with being complete snobs? Again, this shows us that the generations have very much changed over the years. You could also ask yourself, do the kids act this way because they see others acting this way to parents?

All said, A Good Man is Hard to find was a well-written short story. Even though throughout reading the story it wasnt that hard to know how the story was going to end I still peaked my interest. It might have taken me a while to get into the story but once I was sucked in it was an easy read. I think that this is a perfect way to show the readers why people act the way they do and why people arent whom they come out to be. I also thought that with everything that the author had said in the story has actually been everything that has been proven to me in life.