The grandmother in "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. dosenn't value

what she has in her life, but instead wants what has been left behind. She is a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesn't let anyone else's feelings stand in her way.

The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving

woman who lives in the past. She trys to justify her demands by convincing

herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way.

The grandmother is determined to change her family's vacation destination as she tries

to manipulate her son into going to Tennessee instead of Florida. She began trying to

make Bailey, her son, feel guilty about the children's safety for there was a murder on the

loose. The grandmother says that "she couldn't answer to her conscience if she took the

children in a direction where there was a convict on the loose." She is not success-ful with

Bailey, so she uses the same antics on her daughter-in-law who doesn't even acknowledge

her. Before she has a chance to work on the children, they tell her "stay at home if

blood, I know you wouldn't shoot a lady!" The grand-mother's only son, and his entire

being whom she really is. She enjoys listening to old songs like "The Tennessee Waltz."

family are dead and she remains absorbed in her own fear, oblivious to what is going on

agree to it. She describes the old house for the children adding mysterious details to pique

wanting to go to Florida are purely selfish, even though she pretends that it to ensure the

The grandmother remains self-serving throughout the story. She only considers what

children's safety. She also states, "the old plantation would be very educational for them."

The grandmother is very deceitful, and she manages to sneak the cat in the car with her

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