Description essay on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard To Find.
...he children have already taken a trip to Florida and they should go somewhere different. Grandmother insists on trying to manipulate the family by finding reasons not to go to Florida. Grandmother is going to figure out a way to get out of going to Florida; even it means she has to lie about something. Grandmother’s lies comes later in the story. As the story unfolds Grandmother tells many lies to her family. One thing she lies about is an old Plantation she tells the family that she once visited when she was a young girl. She begins to describe the house in such a way that the family is interested in stopping and looking at the house. Grandmother is very imaginative; she tells the gamily things that she could only wish were true such as there is “ A secret panel inside the house.” She tells them this just so the children can get excited and to persuade Bailey to stop and look at this house. Grandmother then lies about some hidden silver inside the house that really gets the children excited and anxious to see the house. As the family is traveling down an abandoned road, Grandmother remembers the house isn’t in Georgia but in Tennessee. Grandmother’s also very inconsiderate throughout her mission to persuade the family to do what she wants. Grandmother never seems to consider any other family members feelings or desires. She only sees what she wants to see and wants to do the opposite of what everyone else wants to do. When the family has plans to go to Florida, she decides she wants to go to Tennessee. She doesn’t consider anyone else’s thoughts or feelings in her attempt to get her son to change his mind about going to Tennessee. When the family is loading up the car, she hides the cat in the car. She knows that if she asked Bailey if she could bring the cat he would say no so she hides it thinking that he would never know it was in the car. Grandmother not telling any...