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Essay / One of My Babies - 616
In "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. The authors tell the story of a southern grandmother, who manipulates her family into not going to Florida anymore but instead she tries to convince them by declaring that "the misfit" was on his way to Florida and that she didn't want to risk them being in danger, when in reality she wanted to meet old friends down south. Her grandchildren from an old plantation she used to visit as a child, changed their minds and began their drive to Tennessee. Driving down a lonely dirt road, the grandmother realizes that she has misled her family to the wrong place to avoid confrontation. doesn't talk about her mistake, instead she stomps in frustration on the back seat of the car, causing her cat to surprise her son while driving, causing him to have an accident on the road to avoid even more. Faced with confrontation, the grandmother acts as if she is hurt to gain her son's sympathy. While he is recovering from the accident on the side of a dirt road, a car passes nearby. Three men get out of the car and once...