Irony in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
...ke at funerals, where everyone is dressed in dark clothing. The grandmother is correlating her clothing with her possible death. The grandmother got all dressed up in case there was an accident. It is almost as if the grandmother knew it would happen. In the story she says that she dressed nice because if she were to be found dead on a highway then people would know she were a lady. In the end she ends up dead not on a highway but on a road where it seemed like no one had been in the longest time. Ironically she dressed up for her own demise. The original destination for the family vacation is to go to Florida, but Grandmother wants to go Tennessee, so she brings up the bad news of the Misfit who broke out of prison, who is now loose somewhere in Florida. The grandmother explains that she’d rather go to Tennessee because she knows people there and hasn’t seen them in some time. The family decides to go to Florida anyway, and though she didn’t want to go, the next morning, she was the first one in the car, ready and all dressed up with her cat. As they continue on in their trip the grandmother tells the children stories and she came about this one story as they reached Toombsboro, Georgia. She told the children that she recalled an old plantation that she visited when she was younger. She told the kids that “there was a secret panel in this house” (409 T). The children got all excited and wanted to go, deep down the grandmother wanted to go also. Bailey, who did not want to go finally gave in and decided to visit this plantation. The grandmother had told them that the road was about a mile back and she seemed so sure of herself. Once they got on to the dirt road where they were suppose to find the house the grandmother realized something, she realized that the house they were looking for was not in Georgia but it was in Tennessee. The grandmother was getting restless and knocked the bag that her cat was in. The cat sprung out of the bag and onto Baileys neck, this frightened Bailey and caused an accident. This is ironic due to the fact that Bailey did not want to go back to find the house with the secret panel, but Grandmother insisted. The grandmother was the one that caused the accident not only because it was her cat but also because of her misjudgment on the location of the house, resulting in all kinds of complications. Not only were they out in a place where no one would pass by but also i...