A Good Man Is Hard To Find Grandmother Character Analysis

The characters in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are people that we could imagine living in the real world. Each character in this piece plays a unique role that helps the family in the story to be portrayed realistically. The grandmother is a southern woman who has to put her input into every situation. June Star and her brother John Wesely are both rowdy kids that are bickering, and occasionally talk back to their grandmother. The mother who does not say much, but is normally taking care of the baby is very quiet. The father of the family, Bailey, is a typical dad who tries to ignore his mother and childrens whining and bickering, but in the end eventually caves in and gives them what they wanted. These characters are so realistic that they just
The grandmother continues to pop of the page this time with the use of direct characterization. Flannery O’Connor describes the grandmother perfectly, and it really gives the audience her sense of style and also how she feels about herself in comparison to others. O’Connor says “The children’s mother still had on slack and still had her head tied up in a green kerchief, but the grandmother had on a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets on the brim and a navy blue dress with a small dot in the print” (O’Connor 2). In this use of direct characterization the grandmother is being portrayed as a woman who is always comparing herself to other people. She needs everyone to know that she is a proper lady, and dresses better than her daughter-in-law. Another example of the grandmother direct characterization is her use of racial slurs. O’Connor puts her use of racial slurs into this short story because she wants everyone to know how she grew up, and in what time period she was raised in. These racial slurs gives the audience a better understanding of the