The Grandmother Analysis

In addition the grandmother not only has internal conflicts but external one as well. The grandmother also has a Man v. Man conflict that shows the nature of humans .One of the external conflicts she has is with her son Bailey. From the start, we as the readers can already see how manipulative the grandmother is by trying to change the location of the trip. "THE GRANDMOTHER didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind." "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
They never have been to east Tennessee"( O'Connor 5-6). Bailey and the grandmother had a disagreement over the location of the trip, even though it was a trip planned for Bailey and his family. The grandmother was trying to change Bailey's way of thinking and tried to get him to change his mind to go to Tennessee because she wanted to go, which shows human nature because the reader gets to see how selfish she is. After the disagreement over the trip location the grandmother continues to do what she wants . The next morning the grandmother brings her cat knowing Bailey didn't want the cat to come because he did not want to arrive at the motel with a cat (O' Connor 7). The grandmother is so stubborn that she brings the cat anyways which causes her family to get into an accident. While on the trip the grandmother tires to persuade Bailey to go the secret panel house she remembered when she was a young lady. She knew that Bailey did not want to get off course and wasn't going to listen to her, so she tricked his children into believing that there was a house with a secret panel because the only people he would listen to is his