A Good Man Is Hard To Find Irony Analysis
Irony is deliberately shown through the leading female characters in the short stories “The Story of an Hour,” “A Rose for Emily,” and also “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” These stories place these women in ironic situations based around their time period and their location. The ironic situations that the authors place these female characters in are largely based around the events that are occurring in that time and place. The irony in the stories is revealed through the actions of the main female characters. “The story of an Hour” and “A Rose for Emily” both exhibit irony through a story dealing with death and freedom. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” shows irony through the pushiness of the main character. All of the actions that the characters
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The short story begins with the grandmother meddling in her son’s summer vacation plans. Her son, Bailey, and his wife and kids all are planning a trip to Florida. The grandmother says, “’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 these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did”’(O’Connor). The grandmother insists that the family visit somewhere more culturally rich such as Tennessee to teach the kids new things. Everybody argues with her and it becomes decided that they will go to Florida whether she likes it or not. During their trip down to Florida the grandmother meddles more into the trip and insists that the family make a slight detour to visit a house she remembers. This is the start of the ironic situation caused by the grandmother’s actions. While on their way to the detour they run off the road into a ditch. A car approaches with some men that offer to help. These men are later revealed to be The Misfit and his friends. The Misfit then kills the entire family. This situation is ironic because the grandmother’s main concern for the trip was running into The Misfit. She insisted that if the family listened to her they would be safe, but in the end her meddling with the trip ultimately led them into the exact situation that she wanted to
The short story begins with the grandmother meddling in her son’s summer vacation plans. Her son, Bailey, and his wife and kids all are planning a trip to Florida. The grandmother says, “’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 these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did”’(O’Connor). The grandmother insists that the family visit somewhere more culturally rich such as Tennessee to teach the kids new things. Everybody argues with her and it becomes decided that they will go to Florida whether she likes it or not. During their trip down to Florida the grandmother meddles more into the trip and insists that the family make a slight detour to visit a house she remembers. This is the start of the ironic situation caused by the grandmother’s actions. While on their way to the detour they run off the road into a ditch. A car approaches with some men that offer to help. These men are later revealed to be The Misfit and his friends. The Misfit then kills the entire family. This situation is ironic because the grandmother’s main concern for the trip was running into The Misfit. She insisted that if the family listened to her they would be safe, but in the end her meddling with the trip ultimately led them into the exact situation that she wanted to