Death of a Salesman

Life is Unpredictable

Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is hard to Find” is a story of a family going on a trip to Florida that concludes to a surprising ending. O’Connor was a religious Christian writer who pointed out American cultures changes. For example, violence, race relation, and class discrimination. The title “A Good Man is Hard to Find” emphasizes the plot of the short story: A journey into a family who risk their lives going to Florida, who is astonishingly come upon the misfit that is a loose from the Federal Pen. The Grandmother reveals what she was trying to tell her son Bailey, have come to a shocking truth. The grandmother, Bailey, and Bailey’s family, in the end are in an unpleasant situation who tries to escape from the misfit. Unfortunately, the grandmother, Bailey, and Bailey’s family faced the harsh reality of getting killed all because of the grandmother’s wrong facts she discussed with the family. The plot of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is best understood by evaluating character and irony.

Characters are usually searching for a mysterious deliverance. The main characters in this story are the misfit and the grandmother. The grandmother is an old lady with old fashioned ideas and manners. She is directive, talkative, a bit silly, and full of her self. The grandmother wanted to participate in planning where the family is going and because of her insisting on what they should do, the whole family is in Toombsboro, Georgia stranded with the killer. Wearing white gloves, a navy blue church dress, and a matching hat, the grandmother thought that it’s a good idea for the sole purpose of being recognized as a woman in case some one saw her lying dead in the high way. The grandmother phony readiness for death is a miserable characteristic and is revealed when she encounters the misfit. When she is left a lone with the misfit, she shows her self to be the least prepared for death. Her beliefs, attitudes, and morals show that she is still a significant person with the knowledge that come with her age. The misfit is an escaped convict who has gray hair and is smart. The misfit reveals himself as a polite, sociable criminal who is misjudged from many people. In the past, the misfit was a good man until he is accused of killing his father and becomes an aggressive criminal. When the grandmother encounters with the misfit, she tries to talk him out of his predicament. Both Characters are in two different levels with concerns and religion. They are not a likable. The misfit disagreed with the grandmother many times. This story contrasted "the Grandmother" and "the Misfit" in religious beliefs and the unaffectedness and comprehension of those beliefs. The misfit believed that Jesus didn’t existed and chooses a life of evil over good. On the other hand, the grandmother is a very religious person and tries to tell the misfit to pray. Unfortunately, religion caused her death.

In addition, there are many parts in this story that analyses Irony. An ironic situation is when the grandmother had warned the family about the criminal. Without really fearing, she encounters him herself. The grandmother and the family are very selfish and predicted nothing could ever go wrong. Another circumstance of irony is when the family passes by a cotton field and five graves that they foreshadow the near future. It was a sign of not surviving life. Life is so unpredictable. You don’t know who or what around you can harm you. Many people are warned ahead of time or some even receive signs something wrong is going to happen. A terrible and incongruous tragedy happened to my brother. He was one of those people that received a sign