Foreshadowing on “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
...sit a state where she feels more comfortable and safe. The grandmother is the most influential character throughout the whole story. At first the reader gets annoyed by the grandmother with all her complaining and nonsense. However, the second time thru, the reader realizes her significance right away in the story. For example, in the opening paragraph the grandmother warns Bailey of “The Misfit”. She asks him to look at the news paper and says, “Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people” (651). At first I thought nothing of this but the second time thru, the reader sees that this is a warning the grandmother is giving to her son to change the vacation plans. Another example of foreshadowing in the story was how the grandmother cared about her appearance. O’Connor mentioned that “in case of an accident, anyone seeing her (the grandmother) dead on the highway would know at once she was a lady” (653). The vanity that the grandmother possesses foreshadows the end events even more. It hints to the reader that an accident may occur because if an accident did not occur then that detail would have no real purpose. Later on in the story, as the family drive on, they move through an old plantation. Once again the grandmother points out something that acts as foreshadowing. She points out an old family burial ground on a plantation. This scene of the story gives the reader a sense that death is part of the story line. Oddly enough the grandmother is the one who leads the family to their death unintentionally. Even though she warns the family of “The Misfit” it turns out that the grandmother is the one who leads them...