A Good Man Is Hard to Find

There comes a time for talking and there comes a time when one just needs to keep their mouth shut. That is a lesson the grandmother did not seem to learn in her lifetime. She seemed to have a knack for telling stories; including fibbing about the secret panel in the old plantation house. The family would never have gone down that worn dirt road if she hadn't excited the children about the secret panel. Ultimately, I think that is what killed her. "She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life," ( O'Connor, 365). The misfit, the sociopath he may have been, seemed to know how the grandmother lived her life. He was able to sense her ability to exaggerate and her pure selfishness.

Not once, throughout the story, did I take notice to the grandmothers plea for her family. That's because there wasn't one. After examining the dialogue, I realized she was trying to save her own skin. " You wouldn't shoot a lady, would you?" (361). This was followed by a similar plea " I know you wouldn't shoot a lady!" (364). What about the rest of her family who had their entire lives ahead of them? The woman had no regard for anybody but herself. Some how the misfit, through his own insanity, saw right through hers in the last moments of her life. The irony here is A Good Woman Is Hard to Find.