Mar 27 2008
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Have you ever known a dysfunctional family; I think this one would top them all! This family has a grandmother who always has some thing to say and is prim and proper, two kids John and June who are the rudest ever there always insulting there parents.
“If you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay at home?”
There dad Bailey the grandmothers son who on the out side seams to be the head of the household but as you get through the story he gives in to the littlest pressure from his mother and kids.
“John Wesley kicked the back of the seat so hard that his father could feel the blows in his kidney.”
The family is discussing where there going to go on vacations, Bailey, John and June Star wanted to go to Florida but the grandmother is resistant to go. She told them a murder the Misfit escaped from jail in Florida but it was really to make the family nerves so they would go to Tennessee to visit friends.
“If you don’t want to go to Florida, why dontcha stay home?”
In the end the grandmother ends up going and incidentally she is the first person in the car with her cat which she snuck in. She sat between the two kids. On there way they get into an argument between them about going to see this house that the grandmother said she lived at. The father said they couldn’t stop because they where behind schedule which set the kids into frenzy. He agreed to go to the house; it was at the end of a strange curvy dirt road.
“This place better show up in a minute.”
They went over the edge of the road when the grandmother’s cat jumped out on to Bailey when they hit a big bump. Which I thought was inevitable for something to go wrong it seams to happen in Flannery O’Connor’s stories. They were all thrown out of the car in all different directions. They all got them selves together they started to think of how they were going to get out of this. As they sat here a car drove up and pulled over on the side of the road. Three men got out of the car they wee all holding guns ad where giving the family an interesting look.
“We’ve had an ACCIDENT”
They were carrying guns they mad there way down the embankment. When they got down to them, they had them sit down together but the kids were separated from the parent and gave them the talk that you hear the mob give (the lead around) then started to take people one by one in to the woods each time you would hear a BANG. Till the grandmother was the only one left but he whole time she was talking up a storm and it was as if she had no idea of what was happening. She knew he was the misfit then started to plead and tell him she was his mother and he wasn’t really a bad guy. Then he just got sick of her and shot her but the way Flannery O’Connor described it was just disturbing.
“She was a talker, wasn’t she”
