A Good Man is Hard to Find
By: Flannery OConnor
A normal family goes on a road trip, you have your Grandmother, Bailey the father, the mother who stays nameless as well as the baby, John Wesley, and June Star the other two children. A wonderfully complex story, has very many strong statements. A typical annoying grandmother who is always right and must have it her way at all time, and if she does not receive her wishes there are consequences. Two bratty children who do not have any respect for their elders, or anything else in that matter, a mother who does not have a voice in her own home. Bailey the father who still is his mothers son and does as he is told when she tells him too. This family is normal, but they dont know how to communicate with each other properly which leads to their deaths.
This story starts off with them taking a road trip to Florida while the grandmother wanted to go to Tennessee. June Star says "She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks, afraid she'd miss something. She has to go everywhere we go." The Grandmother seems afraid to be left alone as if she had not seen the world already and shes going to miss something, or maybe she just doesnt want to die alone. She claims to be a lady and dresses the part in case an accident would to happen. If someone saw her they would know thats a lady and would come to her rescue, as if she is better than anyone else. She has put herself on such a high petiole. Religious she prays to God and yells for him when her life is in danger, but if you notice she does not ask to help her family. The grandmother is a very selfish woman, who only cares for herself. She is not who she claims to be, she does not do as she says.
June Star and John Wesley the boy being older than his sister, but most definitely not anymore mature or a good role model for his sister. They are both inconsiderate, selfish, no manners, and have no respect. The mother seems to ignore that her other two children are bad and disrespectful. Her only concern is her baby that she that never leaves her side. Bailey the father, the husband, and the son he plays many different roles in this family, but does not know how to handle them all at once. He wants to have a voice of his own, but he lets his mother get her way and so does he let his two old children that have no respect for him.
The Misfit sees himself as a bad person with no reason he does not understand why he has become a bad person. He tries to do good in life, but an evil gets a hold of him and he cannot control the outcome even though he really does. He has let others define who he is he has lost who he really was once upon a time. He remembers what he has done in life as like: where all the places he had work, his parents. He let the world take control of him and does not want to fight to prove his good, he second guesses himself, because he does know he is suppose to be a good man. He remembers being a son of God, but somewhere along the way he lost his faith and let the world tell him who he is.
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