A Good Man Is Hard To Find

            The story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is about a grandmother who’s big mouth ends up causing herself and her family to be murdered. The story starts off with the family getting ready to go on a trip to Florida. Grandmother doesn’t want to go. She uses the excuse that the Misfit has escaped prison and will be loose in that area. The family ignores Grandmother. On the way to Florida, Grandmother talks nonstop, which annoys the family. Grandmother starts to talk about an old house with a secret panel that was close to where they were at. The children beg their father, Bailey, to take them there. On the way to the house that actually doesn’t exist, Grandmother’s cat escapes from her purse. The cat causes Bailey to wreck the car. The family flags down a car and the Misfit comes to the “rescue.” Instead of helping the family, he murders them. The last one to be killed is Grandmother. Everyone else in the family realizes and accepts that they are about to die. Grandmother doesn’t accept it and tries to convince the Misfit that he is a good man. Her pleading doesn’t work because he kills her.