In the story ¨A Good Man is Hard” it's about a family who is on a trip but runs into a misfit. The traits in this story were an outsider, social structure, and disturbed personality. The misfit is an outsider because he is different from society. He has escaped from prison and doesn't fit in with the society. He shows his true personality and the way that he really behave in public. The misfit also has a disturbed personality, he just goes out and kills a family that was strangers to him. He didn't have a reason to he just showed no remorse while killing them. The social structure shows when the father can tell the grandmother what to do. She doesn't have any say so in the decisions that are made in the household. He is over the household and makes all the decisions. …show more content…
The traits of this story are social structure, outsider, and Mrs. strangeworth have a high social status because of her family history in the community. Mrs. strangeworth family did a lot for the community and was known as a nice respectful family. Mrs. Strangeworth could be known as an outsider, but she belongs to the community. She lives in the same community as the other citizens her way of thinking is just a little different from theirs. She thinks as the things she do are acceptable, but to other people they are