Response to "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O' Connor

"They passes a large cotton field with five or six graves fenced in the middle of it, like a small island.

O'Connor uses the element of foreshadowing as the story unfolds. This statement predicts that the family will be killed. The father, the mother, the baby , the girl, the boy, and maybe the grandmother. Five or six people. Towards the end of the story, the grandmother repeatedly asked the Misfit if he prayed. She made it seem as if she knew he needed to be asking Jesus for forgiveness. The grandmother never thought for a second that maybe she should be the one asking for forgiveness. Although she pretended to be concerned about her family, she really was only interested in her own safety. At the end of the story the grandmother kept uttering, " I know you wouldn't shoot a lady!" This sentence seems inconsiderate of everyone else that had already been killed because of her tragic character. Her desperate cries for her son Bailey seemed as if they were for help, rather than sympathy. I feel as though the mother was ready to join her husband and son, whether they were dead or alive. The grandmother, however, had already determined that she was not to be killed even if everyone else was.