Causal Analysis: A Good Man Is Hard to Find

In the Flannery O'Connor story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” the author introduces us the grandmother’s characteristics in the beginning. The grandmother thinks she is superior to everyone else because she is a “lady." She judges others and criticized Bailey wife because she believes the mother doesn't take the children somewhere abroad. She is dishonest, dissimulation, and selfish. The Misfit appears at the end of the story. He is showing that he doesn't care about anything or believes in Christ or religious matter. The grandmother tries to influence him that he can be a good person. The grandmother is a contributing factor that tries to show the Misfit that he can be a good man. The grandmother was in fault of being selfish. The moral of the story represents that the grandmother was reaching out for the Misfit. The Misfit finds the meanness of being Christ in sense, was the grandmother believed at the end her life was spared? Two characters collide that makes things real to them and leading to the grandmother death.
The grandmother brought the family somewhere that caused their demise. The grandmother is a sneaky person because she took the cat with her when her son told her not too. It was her fault that making the kids to believe there was a treasure at the house she wanted to visit. She knew Baily her son will take her where she wanted if she influenced the kids first. Her cat jumps from the back seat to Bailys lap causing the car to broke down. When the grandmother realizes that the house she was thinking about wasn't in Florida but in Tennessee. She doesn't comment on making the mistake. After she sees a car coming she asks for them help. She also notes that the man looks familiar, and then yells out to Baily that he is...

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... him he backs up and starts shooting her multiple times. She was trying to comfort him, but he knew that he wasn’t going fall into her level by turning into a good man. He doesn’t think he is an evil person or a good person. The mortal of this story is that two characters can come together to make one realize something that the other person makes them see who they are.

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