Flannery O’Conner’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find...

Selfishness occurred many times throughout Flannery O’Conner’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Every character except for the baby show signs of selfishness, some more severe than others. The worst person in this story is the grandmother. She is the center of all the conflicts in the story and were many of them ended. Other characters have selfish parts but those have a minor effect on the story. Without selfishness in A Good Man Is Hard to Find the outcome would be very different. There may have been some conflict, but that would be the basic family road trip conflict that would have minor to no effect on the end of the story. The protagonist is the grandmother; she is the one who is at the creator of all the problems and events in the†¦show more content†¦The grandmother made a gasp as she realized that this plantation she thought of was in Tennessee not Florida. During her realization, she accidently kicked her cat, that she just had to bring with her, and it g ot startled. The cat jumped and dug its claws into Bailey’s neck. This caught bailey by surprise and turned the wheel and crashed into the ditch. No one was seriously injured which was a disappointment to the two kids who had hoped that the grandmother had died. That is a sad thing to say but that is how selfish the two kids are. A little bit after their crash, a car comes down the road and the grandmother instantly runs out and waves it down because she wants to be saved. The men in the car get out and start talking to them. Bailey, who â€Å"Appreciates the Seriousness of the situation†, begins to speak with the men but the grandmother butts in so Bailey, has no say in the matter. While talking, the grandmother notices something about one of the men. She notices that the driver of the car was the Misfit. Earlier when she was trying to talk Bailey out of going to Florida she â€Å"read that the Misfit had broken out of jail.† She does not realize what she has just done, she just blurted it out. The Misfit might have let them go but now that she recognized him, he would have to make sure that they did not tell of his whereabouts. Bailey and John Wesley are the first ones to be brought to their doom. The grandmother screams â€Å"Bailey Boy!† but she wasShow MoreRelatedA Good Man By Flannery O Connor2114 Words   |  9 Pages A Good Man is Hard to Find Analysis In the short story, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O Connor uses characterization, flashbacks, the five-part plot structure, and point of view to set up the plot efficiently. The story is told through the Grandmother’s point of view most of the time in order to understand her, and her thoughts in her final moments with the misfit. In seeing how the grandmother views the world around her the reader is able to understand the type of person she is. O’Connor