Talking can sometimes be a good thing or it can either be a bad thing. Some people don't understand the concepts of "speak only when spoken to" and not just whenever they feel like it. Sometimes I have the tendency to talk out of turn and people don't even be talking to me. In the story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", Flannery O' Connor reveals the character of the grandmother as the type of person that loves to talk and as one that thinks she know everything too. She was also self-centered and she hated to admit when she was wrong about things, but her talking too much was what led to her getting killed at the end of the story.

The first mistake of the grandmother was that she was self-centered. She always wanted to go where she wanted to go and when she wanted to go. This characteristic was shown especially when she told her son, "The children have been to Florida before. You ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad. They never have been to east Tennessee." She didn't want her son to know that she was the one wanting to go to east Tennessee, so she tri

The second mistake that the grandmother made was admitting that she was wrong whenever she made a mistake. She kept all her secrets and mistakes to herself due to being embarrassment. For example, when she realized that the house she was talking about was in Tennessee and not in Georgia, she was too embarrassed to say anything. "The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up...the cat, sprang onto Bailey's shoulder. Because the grandmother chose to keep her secret to herself, it cost her and her family their lives. Bailey got scared and the Misfit came along and killed all of them. This just proves that if the grandmother had told the truth in the first place, everything would have turned out ok.

ed to make it seem as if he should take the kids, only to benefit herself. She tried to convince her son not to go to Florida because of a hit man that she had read about in the newspaper that morning. She even put the paper up to her son's face and said read, "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)